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Genus Palorus

Tenebrionidae - Palorus ratzeburgii Teneb - Palorus subdepressus Palorus ratzeburgi - Palorus ratzeburgii Small-eyed Flour Beetle - Palorus ratzeburgii Small-eyed Flour Beetle - Palorus ratzeburgii Small-eyed Flour Beetle - Palorus ratzeburgii Tribolium castaneum? - Palorus ratzeburgii Palorus - Palorus ratzeburgii
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 Triboliini
Genus Palorus
Explanation of Names
Palorus Mulsant 1854
Numbers
2-3 spp. in our area(1)(2)
Identification
images of P. ratzeburgii and P. subdepressus
Range
cosmopolitan [most spp. in Africa(3)]; all the spp. present in our area are also cosmopolitan (spread by trade)(1)
Habitat
most spp. in stored grain, some (at least in Eurasia) in similar dry substrates under bark and in tree holes (=v=)
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.
2.The Darkling Beetles of Florida and Eastern United States (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).
Dunford et al. 2005. University of Florida Entomology and Nematology Dept., Gainesville.
3.Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology
Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.
Contributed by v belov on 7 June, 2010 - 11:47am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 2 June, 2015 - 7:14pm

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