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Genus Apsena

Nicely textured tenebrionid - Apsena rufipes Apsena? - Apsena rufipes Apsena rufipes? - Apsena rufipes SBBG-SR_000347 - Apsena rufipes Genus Apsena? - Apsena Tijuana Estuary, McCoy Trail, San Diego County, California, USA - Apsena Apsena grossa Apsena rufipes
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 Eulabini
Genus Apsena
Explanation of Names
Apsena LeConte 1862
Numbers
6 spp. (with sspp.) in our area, 8 total(1)
Range
CA & Baja(1)
See Also
Sometimes mis-identified as Epantius...to separate the two see the post below:

   
Print References
Blaisdell, F. E. (1932). Studies in the Tenebrionid tribe Scuarini: A monographic revision of Eulabes (Coleoptera). Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 58(1):35-108. (2)
Berry, R. L. (1970). A Revision of the tribes Cerenopini and Eulabini (formerly Scaurini, in part) of North America (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University. (Full Text)
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.
2.Studies in the tenebrionid tribe Scaurini: A monographic revision of the Eulabes (Coleoptera)
Blaisdell F.E. 1932. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 58: 35-101.