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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Darkling Beetles (Melandryidae) » Osphya » Osphya varians

Species Osphya varians

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
Beetle ID - Osphya varians Osphya varians (LeConte) - Osphya varians - female Melandryidae - Osphya varians Black soldier beetle with two marks on the pronotum - Osphya varians Unknown soldier beetle - Osphya varians Unknown mating soldier beetles (Rhagonycha) - Osphya varians - male - female Unknown Beetle - Osphya varians beetle - Osphya varians
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 Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)
Genus Osphya
Species varians (Osphya varians)
Other Common Names
Variable False Darkling Beetle
Explanation of Names
Osphya varians (LeConte 1866)
Numbers
5.0-8.0 mm(1)
Identification
pronotal and leg color variable; males have distinctive metatibial lobes (see hind legs, just above the tarsi)
Range
e. NA (QC-FL to ON-TX) - Map (1)(2)(3), mostly Texas and s. Great Plains
Life Cycle
collected by beating trees in c. TX (all in April; mostly from oaks)(4)
See Also
Atalantycha bilineata (Say) - Cantharidae (Soldier Beetle)
- Range: e. NA
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1866b. New species of North American Coleoptera. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1 (concluded). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6(167): 87-168.
Works Cited
1.Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina
Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.
2.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat.
Quinn, M.A. 2000. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 16 May, 2008 - 4:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 23 March, 2024 - 3:44pm

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