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Species Stenomorpha opaca

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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 Pimeliinae
Tribe Asidini
Genus Stenomorpha
No Taxon (subgenus Asidopsis)
Species opaca (Stenomorpha opaca)
Explanation of Names
Stenomorpha opaca (Say 1824)
Identification
variable species
Range
AB-SK-ND to NM-TX(1)
from the eastern edge of the Rockies out into the Great Plains from Canada to Mexico. (A.D. Smith, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2015)
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.
Contributed by v belov on 27 April, 2011 - 2:04pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 16 December, 2018 - 4:53pm

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