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Genus Eleodes - Desert Stink Beetles
Classification Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Tenebrioninae
Tribe Amphidorini
Genus Eleodes (Desert Stink Beetles)
Other Common Names Circus Beetles
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names Eleodes Eschscholtz 1829
currently treated as feminine, which was overlooked or neglected by some authors
Numbers New World's largest tenebrionid genus, with ~210 described spp. (~130 in our area, some with multiple sspp.), arranged into 16 subgenera (all but 3 in our area) (2)
Identification subgenera defined based primarily on female genitalia (4)
review of the TX spp. in (6)
Range w NA (BC-MB to Mexico); in our fauna, >40 spp. are either CA endemics or do not occur outside CA in the US (2)
Remarks larvae of E. extricata, E. hispilabris, E. obsoleta, E. opaca, E. suturalis are considered agricultural pests; they feed on seeds, roots, and subterreanean stems (3)
Works Cited 2. | Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455. | |
4. | 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. |  |
6. | The genus Eleodes Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in Texas. Triplehorn et al. 2009. The Coleopterists Bulletin 63(4): 413-437. | |
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