Species Osphya varians

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Osphya varians (LeConte) - Osphya varians - male

Osphya varians (LeConte) - Osphya varians - female

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 Unpublished Thesis.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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