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Tribe Bolitophagini

Bolitotherus cornutus (Panzer) - Bolitotherus cornutus - male Darkling beetle - Bolitotherus cornutus - female Forked Fungus Beetle - Bolitotherus cornutus - male - female Help with ID - Rhipidandrus paradoxus Bolitotherus cornutus - male Forked Fungus Beetles in Foreplay Stridulation Position - Bolitotherus cornutus - male - female Fungus beetle ex artist's conk - Bolitotherus cornutus Bolitotherus or Bolitophagus - Bolitophagus corticola
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 Tenebrioninae
Tribe Bolitophagini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly(1) treated as a subfamily (Bolitophaginae)
Explanation of Names
Bolitophagini Kirby 1837 nomen protectum
Numbers
9 spp. in 5 genera in our area, 21 genus worldwide(1)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.