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Species Anaedus texanus

Anaedus texanus Linell - Anaedus texanus Anaedus texanus Linell - Anaedus texanus
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 Lagriinae (Long-jointed Beetles)
Tribe Goniaderini
Genus Anaedus
Species texanus (Anaedus texanus)
Explanation of Names
Anaedus texanus Linell 1901 (Note, Martin L. Linell died May 3 1897 so this description was published posthumously.)
Numbers
5 spp. in US (1)
Range
southmost TX - Map (2)
Habitat
one taken by Wickham under leaves (Townsend 1902)
Remarks
Type coll'ed by E. A. Schwarz in Brownsville, Texas.
Print References
Linell, M. 1901. Descriptions of some new species of North American heteromerous Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 4: 180–186. (Full Text)
Schaeffer, C. 1915. New Coleoptera and miscellaneous notes. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 23: 47-55. (Full Text)
Townsend, C.H.T. 1902. Contribution to a knowledge of the coleopterous fauna of the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and Tamaulipas, the biological notes and special reference to geological distribution. Trans. Texas Acad. Sci. 5: 49-101. (Full Text)
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)