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Species Gondwanocrypticus pictus

Tenebrionidae? - Gondwanocrypticus pictus

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 Crypticini

Genus Gondwanocrypticus

Species pictus (Gondwanocrypticus pictus)

Explanation of Names

Gondwanocrypticus pictus (Gebien 1928)

Size

2.5-3.7 mm(1)

Range

native to S. America, adventive in NA (se US: NC-FL-MS)(2)

Habitat

Under leaf litter near ant nests(2)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: 1954(2)

Works Cited

1.	Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.

2.	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 v belov on 3 August, 2018 - 6:52pm

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