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Species Phaleria picipes

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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 Diaperinae
Tribe Phaleriini
Genus Phaleria
Species picipes (Phaleria picipes)
Remarks
"The only other eastern US sp [the other being P. testacea]. north of FL keys. Atlantic coast ones are generally all black, but populations in the keys, Bahamas, etc. tend to be bicolored, tan or yellowish." - W. Steiner