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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles (Tenebrionoidea) » Darkling Beetles (Tenebrionidae) » Stenochiinae » Cnodalonini » Alobates

Genus Alobates

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · See Also · Works Cited
Beetle June 2008 57 - Alobates pensylvanica Alobates pennsylvanica ? - Alobates pensylvanica Alobates pensylvanica (De Geer) - Alobates pensylvanica Alobates morio - Alobates barbatus false mealworm beetle - Alobates pensylvanica BioBlitz Bug 2 - Alobates Alobates morio - Alobates barbatus Alobates pensylvanica - Alobates pensylvanica
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea (Fungus, Bark, Darkling and Blister Beetles)
Family Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
Subfamily Stenochiinae
Tribe Cnodalonini
Genus Alobates
Explanation of Names
Alobates Motschulsky 1872
Likely from Greek alo (variant of allo) 'other' + bates 'one who treads/haunts'(1)
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(2)
Size
17-23 mm(3)
Identification
Key to species:
Mentum smooth, without tuft of long yellowish setae---> pensylvanica
Mentum with tuft of long yellowish setae---> barbatus
Range
e. North America, A. pennsylvanica into Mexico(2)
Habitat
under bark on dead standing trees(3)
Season
All year under bark
See Also
Merinus laevis
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.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.
3.The Darkling Beetles of Florida and Eastern United States
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 September, 2004 - 11:30pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 24 June, 2018 - 8:00pm

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