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Genus Apsena

Representative Images

Nicely textured tenebrionid - Apsena rufipes Nicely textured tenebrionid - Apsena rufipes Beetle - Apsena rufipes Apsena? - Apsena laticornis Apsena rufipes? - Apsena rufipes Apsena grossa Darkling Beetle - Apsena Apsena grossa

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.
Contributed by Kojun Kanda on 23 January, 2008 - 4:25pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 11 April, 2021 - 10:11am

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