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Subfamily Lagriinae - Long-jointed Beetles

Statira basalis Horn - Statira basalis Beetle unknown - Statira basalis beetle - Paratenetus punctatus Beetle - Paratenetus Paratenetus texanus Bousquet & Bouchard - Paratenetus texanus Bronze Gold Metallic Beetle - Arthromacra aenea Long-jointed beetle - Statira Beetle, dorsal-lateral elytra - Statira robusta - male
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 Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Lagriinae (Long-jointed Beetles)
Explanation of Names
Lagriinae Latreille 1825
Numbers
~35 spp. in 8 genera of 3 tribes in our area(1); 9 tribes total(2)
Range
worldwide
Life Cycle
Larvae feed in decaying vegetation in stumps and under bark(3)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.
3.How to Know the Beetles
Ross H. Arnett, N. M. Downie, H. E. Jaques. 1980. Wm. C. Brown Publishers.