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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Ironclad Beetles (Zopheridae) » Ironclad Beetles (Zopherinae) » Zopherini » Zopherus

Genus Zopherus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Ironclad Beetle - Zopherus granicollis Zopherus nodulosus haldemani Horn - Zopherus nodulosus Zopherus championi - Zopherus championi Zopherus championi - Zopherus championi Zopherus nodulosus haldemani - Zopherus nodulosus Zopherus - Zopherus uteanus Zopherus tristis? - Zopherus tristis - female Arizona Beetle - Zopherus gracilis
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 Zopheridae (Ironclad Beetles)
Subfamily Zopherinae (Ironclad Beetles)
Tribe Zopherini
Genus Zopherus
Explanation of Names
Zopherus Gray 1832
Greek 'dusky, gloomy'
Numbers
10 spp. in our area, 19 total(1)
Size
up to 40+ mm
Identification
Long, subcylindrical, with extremely tough exoskeleton. Head normally retracted into prothorax, viewed from above. Elytra fused.
Range
sw.US (so. border states + NV‒CO) to Venezuela(1)(2)
Internet References
Genus page(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.A review of the genus Zopherus of the World (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Triplehorn C.A. 1972. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 108: 1‒24.
3.Lord N.P., Nearns E.H., Miller K.B. (2011-2013) Ironclad ID
Contributed by Stephen_WV on 21 June, 2005 - 6:22am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, Hartmut Wisch, Michael Merchant, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2024 - 5:04pm

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