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Subfamily Lagriinae - Long-jointed Beetles

Tenebrionidae - Statira basalis - male Beetle - Statira basalis 9032723 teneb - Arthromacra aenea Statira basalis? Emerging from rotten Quercus wood - Statira basalis Beetle - Arthromacra aenea Female, Statira pluripunctata? - Statira pluripunctata Statira dolera Statira? - Statira
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.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 29 June, 2005 - 2:24pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 16 December, 2018 - 2:16pm

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