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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Ammodonus

Digging Darkling Beetle - Ammodonus fossor unknown beetle in dunes - Ammodonus fossor beetle - Ammodonus fossor Teneb - Ammodonus granosus Unknown Beetle - Ammodonus fossor Ammodonus granosus? - Ammodonus granosus Ammodonus fossor Ammodonus granosus? - Ammodonus granosus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Tenebrioninae
Tribe Opatrini
Genus Ammodonus
Explanation of Names
Ammodonus Mulsant & Rey 1859
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, 1 more in Mesoamerica(1)
Range
s. ON, e. US & AZ to the neotropics(1)
Habitat
open sandy areas, beaches, deserts
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.