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Species Apsena rufipes - Fig Engraver Beetle

Nicely textured tenebrionid - Apsena rufipes

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 Tenebrioninae

Tribe Eulabini

Genus Apsena

Species rufipes (Fig Engraver Beetle)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eulabis rufipes Eschscholtz 1829. Zool. Atlas III, 15

Apsena rufipes Blaisdell 1932.

Explanation of Names

The epithet rufipes is Latin for "red-footed". It presumably refers to the red legs of this species.

Numbers

3 sspp., all in our area(1)

Size

4.2–7.0 mm

Range

CA(1)

Habitat

Associated with raisins and figs in the field and in storage(2)

Print References

Blaisdell, F. E. (1932). Studies in the Tenebrionid tribe Scuarini: A monographic revision of Eulabes (Coleoptera). Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 58(1):35-108. (Full Text)

Berry, R. L. (1970). A Revision of the tribes Cerenopini and Eulabini (formerly Scaurini, in part) of North America (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Ph.D. Dissertation, Ohio State University. (Full Text)

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.

2.	Handbook of urban insects and arachnids: A handbook of urban entomology Robinson W.H. 2005. Cambridge University Press.

Contributed by v belov on 23 December, 2013 - 7:49pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff
Last updated 16 August, 2019 - 6:38pm

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