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Uloma
Genus
Uloma
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
Ulomini
Genus
Uloma
Explanation of Names
Uloma
Laporte
1840
Numbers
5 described spp. in our area
(
1
)
+ one unnamed in FL
(
2
)
Size
7-12 mm
Range
mostly Holarctic; widespread and common in NA, mostly eastern
(
2
)
(
1
)
;
U. impressa
ranges north into ON,
U. longula
(the only western sp.), into BC
(
3
)
Works Cited
1.
American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.
The Darkling Beetles of Florida and Eastern United States
3.
Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
Contributed by
tom murray
on 8 May, 2005 - 3:20pm
Additional contributions by
cotinis
,
Mike Quinn
,
v belov
Last updated 8 September, 2022 - 7:53pm