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Genus Centronopus

Black tenebs - Centronopus calcaratus Darkling beetle (2) - Centronopus calcaratus - female ground beetle - Centronopus calcaratus Centronopus calcaratus Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Centronopus calcaratus Beetle on Driftwood - Centronopus calcaratus Found in driveway - Centronopus calcaratus false wireworm larva - Centronopus calcaratus
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 Centronopini
Genus Centronopus
Explanation of Names
Centronopus Solier 1848
Numbers
2 spp. in our area (both in the subg. Menechides Motschulsky 1872), several more spp. in 2 subgenera in Mesoamerica(1)
Range
neotropical group ranging into e Canada(1)
Works Cited
1.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.