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Species Tonibius sulcatus

Smallish ground beetle, maybe Coelometopinae, needs a name tag - Tonibius sulcatus small teneb - Tonibius sulcatus Tonibius sulcatus  - Tonibius sulcatus SBBG-SCL-TIC_000188 - Tonibius sulcatus SBBG-SCL-TIC_000188 - Tonibius sulcatus SBBG-SCL-TIC_000188 - Tonibius sulcatus
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 Tonibius
Species sulcatus (Tonibius sulcatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Conibius alternatus Casey 1890(1)
Explanation of Names
Tonibius sulcatus (LeConte 1851)
Range
CA (Kern, Orange, and San Diego cos.) to Baja & Sonora, Mexico(1)
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.