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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Apteroloma

Apteroloma tahoecum (Fall) - Apteroloma tahoecum Apteroloma tahoecum (Fall) - Apteroloma tahoecum Beetle - Apteroloma tahoecum Beetle - Apteroloma tahoecum Primitive Carrion Beetle? - Apteroloma tenuicorne Primitive Carrion Beetle? - Apteroloma tenuicorne Psephenidae? - Apteroloma Late season ground beetle (?) - Apteroloma tenuicorne
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Staphyliniformia)
Superfamily Staphylinoidea
Family Agyrtidae (Primitive Carrion Beetles)
Genus Apteroloma
Explanation of Names
Apteroloma Hatch 1927
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1)
Range
w. NA (AB-BC-CA-AZ); Mexico(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.