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Genus Alobates

Alobates pennsylvanica? - Alobates pensylvanicus Tenebrionid - Alobates pensylvanicus Alobates Pensylvanica? - Alobates pensylvanicus Maybe a McBeetle? - Alobates pensylvanicus beetle from rotten willow log on ground - Alobates pensylvanicus Alobates sp.? - Alobates pensylvanicus Darkling Beetle - Alobates pensylvanicus False Mealworm Beetle - Alobates pensylvanicus
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 Stenochiinae
Tribe Cnodalonini
Genus Alobates
Explanation of Names
Alobates Motschulsky 1872
Numbers
2 spp., both in our area(1)(2)
Size
17‒23 mm(3)
Identification
Key to species:
Mentum with tuft of long yellowish setae ⇒barbatus
Mentum without such tuft ⇒pensylvanicus
Range
e.Canada to Mexico(2)
Habitat
under bark on dead standing trees(3)
Season
All year under bark
Works Cited
1.BioLib.cz
2.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.
3.The Darkling Beetles of Florida and Eastern United States