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Species Leichenum canaliculatum - Madagascar Beetle

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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 Blaptinae
Tribe Pedinini
Subtribe Leichenina
Genus Leichenum
Species canaliculatum (Madagascar Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Leichenum canaliculatum (Fabricius 1798)
Numbers
several sspp., of which only L. c. variegatum in our area(1)
Range
widespread in the Old World tropics, adventive in our area (coastel se.US)(1)
Habitat
coastal areas
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.