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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Tenebrioninae » Amphidorini » Desert Stink Beetles (Eleodes) » subgenus Promus (Eleodes subgenus Promus) » Plains False Wireworm (Eleodes opaca)

Species Eleodes opaca - Plains False Wireworm

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Amphidorini
Genus Eleodes (Desert Stink Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Promus)
Species opaca (Plains False Wireworm)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Syn: opacus
Explanation of Names
Eleodes opaca (Say 1824)
Range
s.AB to s.MB to n.TX - Map (1)(2)(3)
Remarks
The gender of Eleodes is feminine (4), so adjectivic species names end -is or -a, not -um.
Works Cited
1.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
2.Smith A.D. tenebrioniDBase
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.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.
Contributed by v belov on 14 April, 2011 - 10:16pm
Additional contributions by ghanley1, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche
Last updated 29 January, 2024 - 8:53pm

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