Tribe Serropalpini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Largish Tenebrionid perhaps - Serropalpus

Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Serropalpus

Tenebrionoidea - False Darkling Beetles - Melandryidae - Serropalpus

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 Melandryidae (False Darkling Beetles)

Subfamily Melandryinae

Tribe Serropalpini

Explanation of Names

Serropalpini Latreille 1829

Numbers

4 spp. in 2 genera in our area, ~45 spp. in 13 genera total(1)(2)(3)

Range

much of the world; most genera are endemic to either northern temperate regions or to areas of southern hemisphere around the Pacific(1); in NA, associated with conifer forests

Works Cited

1.	Coleoptera, Beetles; Morphology and Systematics vol. 2 Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence. 2010. De Gruyter.

2.	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.

3.	BioLib.cz

Contributed by v belov on 15 March, 2010 - 4:51pm
Last updated 5 February, 2015 - 5:20pm

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