Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Print References · Works Cited

Alobates pennsylvanica NJ November - Alobates pensylvanicus

Unknown beetle - Hymenorus sp-two-eastern

Tumbling Flower Beetle - Mordellistena cervicalis

Hymenochara arizonensis? - Hymenochara arizonensis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Tenebrionoidea

Numbers

23 families in our area, 28 total(1)

Identification

In underside view, hind trochanters almost always oblique and triangular, usually small, not fully separating hind femora from coxae; slightly enlarged in Aderidae but still of the same shape and position and barely separating the femur from the coxae in Ciidae.

Print References

(2)

Works Cited

1.	Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.

2.	Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.

Contributed by Cotinis on 9 January, 2006 - 9:13am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 3 August, 2023 - 1:16pm

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