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Species Eleusima reclusa

Representative Images

Inopeplus sp. - Eleusima reclusa Inopeplus - Eleusima reclusa Rove Beetle or ant? - Eleusima reclusa Narrow-waisted Bark Beetle - Eleusima reclusa Pselaphinae  ?  - Eleusima reclusa Pselaphinae  ?  - Eleusima reclusa Eleusima reclusa Unknown beetle - Eleusima reclusa

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 Salpingidae (Narrow-waisted Bark Beetles)
Genus Eleusima
Species reclusa (Eleusima reclusa)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Ino reclusa LeConte 1880 ≡Inopeplus reclusus

Explanation of Names

Eleusima reclusa (LeConte)

Size

1.9‒2.5 mm(1)

Range

se.US (NC‒FL to OK‒TX)(1)(2)(3)

Works Cited

1.Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina
Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.
2. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
3.List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)