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Genus Trogloderus

Opatrinae: Eleodini: Trogloderus - Trogloderus kandai

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 Amphidorini

Genus Trogloderus

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in (1)

Explanation of Names

Trogloderus LeConte 1879

Numbers

9 spp., all in our area(1)

Identification

within Amphidorini: body roughly sculptured, pronotum tuberculate or roughly punctured; elytron with four sharp costae (suture costate or not); tarsi beneath with yellow to castaneus spicules, never with tomentose pads; probasitarsus thickened ventrally near distal margin.

Range

ID‒CA‒AZ‒UT(1)

Habitat

dunes and sandy habitats(1)

Works Cited

1.	Phylogenetic revision of the psammophilic Trogloderus with biogeographic implications for the Intermountain Region M. Andrew Johnston. 2019. PeerJ.

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 7 August, 2007 - 9:11am
Additional contributions by margarethe brummermann, v belov, Alice Abela
Last updated 20 August, 2023 - 4:56pm

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