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Species Saprinus lugens

Histerid - Saprinus lugens - male Clown Beetle - Saprinus lugens Clown Beetle - Saprinus lugens Clown Beetle - Saprinus lugens found around seeping stump - Saprinus lugens Fair sized Histerid of sorts.. - Saprinus lugens S. lugens? - Saprinus lugens Histeridae - Saprinus lugens
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Hydrophiloidea
Family Histeridae (Clown Beetles)
Subfamily Saprininae
Tribe Saprinini
Genus Saprinus
No Taxon (subgenus Saprinus)
Species lugens (Saprinus lugens)
Explanation of Names
Saprinus lugens Erichson 1834
Range
transcontinental, Canada to Mexico(1)(2); more common from the Great Plains and westward (GBIF)
Remarks
adventive in the Mediterranean(3)
Works Cited
1.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.
2. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
3.Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe
Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.
Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 3 August, 2008 - 4:17pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 24 November, 2021 - 12:37pm

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