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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

Arizona Beetle for ID - Omorgus suberosus

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. Proc. San Diego Soc. Nat.Hist. 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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