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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae) » Oedemerinae » Asclerini » Rhinoplatia » Rhinoplatia ruficollis

Species Rhinoplatia ruficollis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Works Cited
False Blister Beetle - Rhinoplatia ruficollis False Blister Beetle - Rhinoplatia ruficollis Rhinoplatia ruficollis Rhinoplatia ruficollis Rhinoplatia ruficollis? - Rhinoplatia ruficollis Rhinoplatia ruficollis? - Rhinoplatia ruficollis Beetle from Alma Canyon - Rhinoplatia ruficollis Beetle from Alma Canyon - Rhinoplatia ruficollis
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 Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Oedemerinae
Tribe Asclerini
Genus Rhinoplatia
Species ruficollis (Rhinoplatia ruficollis)
Explanation of Names
Rhinoplatia ruficollis Horn 1868
Size
5.0-12.0 mm(1)
Identification
Bluish-black, but entirely clothed with a moderately dense griseous pubescence. Head elongate, may be black, or black with a reddish-orange apical half. Thorax is reddish-yellow. Antennae slender, filiform, and eleven-jointed.
Range
CA-NV-nw.AZ (w. Great Basin into the Mojave & Colorado Deserts and west into the Piedmont & Transverse Ranges)(1)
Season
Mar-Jun(2)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the Nearctic Oedemeridae (Coleoptera)
Arnett R.H., Jr. 1951. American Midland Naturalist 45: 257-391.
2.Field Guide to Beetles of California
Arthur V. Evans and James N. Hogue. 2006. University of California Press.
Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 4 February, 2010 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 24 February, 2015 - 6:44pm

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