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Species Opatroides punctulatus

Representative Images

Tenebrionid 3 - Opatroides punctulatus Tenebrionid 3 - Opatroides punctulatus Little Beetle - Opatroides punctulatus Little Beetle - Opatroides punctulatus Opatroides punctulatus? - Opatroides punctulatus Darkling Beetle - Opatroides punctulatus beetle - Opatroides punctulatus Darkling Beetle - Opatroides punctulatus

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 Blaptinae
Tribe Opatrini
Subtribe Opatrina
Genus Opatroides
Species punctulatus (Opatroides punctulatus)

Explanation of Names

Opatroides punctulatus Brullé 1832

Range

native to the Mediterranean & sw. Asia, adventive in NA (CA-NV)(1)

Habitat

associated with ants

Remarks

earliest record in our area: CA 2003(1)

Print References

Aalbu R.L., Kanda K., Steiner W.E. (2009) Opatroides punctulatus Brullé now established in California (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae. Pan-pacif. Entomol. 85: 38–42 (Full text)

Works Cited

1.New records of three non-native darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) established in California and Nevada, USA
Steiner W.E., Swearingen J.M. 2015. Col. Bull. 69: 22-26.
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 30 December, 2007 - 12:23am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 21 December, 2018 - 6:26pm

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