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Tribe Diaperini

Two-Horned Darklings - Neomida bicornis - male Platydema excavatum (Say) - Platydema excavatum Platydema? - Platydema excavatum Tenebrionidae, head & pronotum, lateral - Cynaeus angustus Platydema-erythrocerum? - Platydema erythrocerum - female Platydema americanum - Platydema americana Platydema? - Platydema nigratum Neomida bicornis
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 Diaperinae
Tribe Diaperini
Identification
See (1)
Works Cited
1.Revision of Diaperini of American north of Mexico with notes on extralimital species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Triplehorn, C.A. 1965. Proceedings of the United States National Museum No. 3515, 117: 349-458.