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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Hide Beetles (Trogidae) » Hastate Hide Beetles (Omorgus) » Omorgus suberosus

Species Omorgus suberosus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
Family Trogidae (Hide Beetles)
Genus Omorgus (Hastate Hide Beetles)
Species suberosus (Omorgus suberosus)
Explanation of Names
Omorgus suberosus (Fabricius 1775)
suberosus 'slightly eroded'
Size
11.1-14.1 mm(1)
Identification

Variation
Range
US (widespread) to S. America & W. Indies; adventive elsewhere [map](1)(2)(3), the broadest range of any New World trogid(4)
Habitat
taken under goat carrion, chicken feathers, cow dung, at malt, and at lights(2)
Season
Mar-Sep in so. CA(4)
Life Cycle
in ND, adults overwinter and emerge the following spring to feed and mate(5)
Works Cited
1.The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska
Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.
2.A revision of the genus Trox in North America (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Vaurie P. 1955. Bull. AMNH 106: 1‒89.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.The Scarabaeoid beetles of San Diego County, California. Part I. Introduction...
McPeak R.H., Oberbauer T.A. 2008. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 40: 1-24.
5.The phytophagous Scarabaeidae and Troginae (Coleoptera) of North Dakota
Lago P.K., Post R.L., Oseto C.Y. 1979. Schafer-Post Series: North Dakota Insects Publication 12, NDSU. 131 pp.
Contributed by MJ Paulsen on 10 October, 2008 - 9:50am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 August, 2020 - 7:10pm

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