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Species Eleodes granosa

Granulated Darkling Beetle - Eleodes granosa Granulated Darkling Beetle - Eleodes granosa Eleodes granosa LeConte - Eleodes granosa Teneb - Eleodes granosa Eleodes granosus - Eleodes granosa Eleodes granosus? - Eleodes granosa beetle - Eleodes granosa Eleodes granosus - Eleodes granosa
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 Amphidorini
Genus Eleodes (Desert Stink Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Pseudeleodes)
Species granosa (Eleodes granosa)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eleodes granosus
Explanation of Names
Eleodes granosa LeConte 1866
Range
so. CA... (map)(1)
Remarks
The gender of Eleodes is feminine (2), so adjectivic species names end -is or -a, not -um.
Works Cited
1.Smith A.D. tenebrioniDBase
2.Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America
Yves Bousquet, Donald B. Thomas, Patrice Bouchard, Aaron D. Smith, Rolf L. Aalbu, M. Andrew Johnston, Warren E. Steiner Jr. 2018. ZooKeys 728: 1-455.