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Species Paramordellaria triloba

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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 Mordellidae (Tumbling Flower Beetles)
Tribe Mordellini
Genus Paramordellaria
Species triloba (Paramordellaria triloba)
Explanation of Names
Paramordellaria triloba (Say 1824)
Size
Length to apices of elytra 3.5 mm; to tip of anal style, 4.5 mm(1)
Identification
Description (1):
Subcuneiform, broadest in female; black, except mouthparts, antennae, and legs which are fuscotestaceous; head with fine pubescence; thorax with irregular lines or marks of yellowish gray pubescence comprising a line oil each side of middle from base to near apex, with sides more or less diffused; elytra with three such bands, one near base (broad and curved from near humeral angle to suture, enclosing a large scutellar black spot), one at middle (broad, reaching suture and side margin), and a similar band one-fourth from apex, with yellowish gray pubescence; these bands in some specimens may be connected with a narrow marginal line of similar pubescence; remainder of elytra and thorax above with black pubescence ; underside with grayish pubescence; anal style rather thickly covered with silvery pubescence.
Head rather large, minutely punctured; eyes reaching occiput, finely granulated and hairy; antennae short, with segments five to ten serrate; last segment of maxillary palpi elongate securiform.
Pronotum nearly twice as broad as long, broader than elytra at base and more coarsely punctured; base in front of scutellum broadly rounded, basal angles obtuse; scutellum triangular, rounded at apex.
Elytra reticulate, coarsely punctured; apex rounded with distinct margin; anterior tarsi with fourth segment dilated; middle tibiae as long as all five tarsal segments of same pair of legs; posterior tibiae with usual subapical ridge, and a carinated dorsal ridge along outer margin, and a similar less pronounced carinated ridge on first segment of posterior tarsi; anal style long and slender, pointed.
Range
e. NA (QC-NC to MB-KS-AL) - Map (2)(3)(4)
Works Cited
1.Monograph of the Family Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of North America, North of Mexico
Emil Liljeblad. 1945. University of Michigan Press.
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.Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina
Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)