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Genus Lobometopon

Lobometopon ovale (Casey) - Lobometopon ovale

Male, Lobometopon ovale - Lobometopon ovale - male

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 Pimeliinae

Tribe Epitragini

Genus Lobometopon

Explanation of Names

Lobometopon Casey 1907

Numbers

3 spp. in our area, 9 more in Mesoamerica(1)

Range

sw. US (north to NE) to Panama(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.

Contributed by Kojun Kanda on 25 September, 2007 - 5:47pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 December, 2018 - 9:16pm

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