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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Helopini » Tarpela » Tarpela venusta

Species Tarpela venusta

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Works Cited
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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 Helopini
Genus Tarpela
Species venusta (Tarpela venusta)
Explanation of Names
Tarpela venusta (Say 1824)
Size
7.5-10 mm(1)
Identification
the smallest and least frequently collected of the three widespread Tarpela spp., with more polished surface and distinctively convex elytral intervals(1)
Range
e. US (NY-GA-AL to MO)(1)
Season
Mar-May in SC(2)
Works Cited
1.The Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Virginia
W.E. Steiner, Jr. 2009. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 16: 331-339.
2.Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina
Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.
Contributed by Brad Barnd on 6 April, 2010 - 12:27am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 December, 2018 - 8:19pm

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