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Genus Tarpela

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 Helopini

Genus Tarpela

Explanation of Names

Tarpela Bates 1870

Numbers

3 spp. in our area, dozens in the Neotropics(1)

Size

8-19 mm

Identification

metallic sheen; unlike Helops, winged and come to lights; all our spp. described and illustrated in(2)

Range

neotropical genus ranging into e NA north to se Canada(1)

Habitat

deciduous forests

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.

2.	The Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Virginia W.E. Steiner, Jr. 2009. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 16: 331-339.

Contributed by Cotinis on 8 April, 2005 - 5:57am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 8 April, 2022 - 9:54am

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