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Species Eleodes inculta

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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 Tenebrioninae
Tribe Amphidorini
Genus Eleodes (Desert Stink Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Blapylis)
Species inculta (Eleodes inculta)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eleodes incultus
Explanation of Names
Eleodes inculta LeConte 1861
Range
so.CA (map)(1)
Remarks
The gender of Eleodes is feminine (2), so adjectivic species names end -is or -a, not -um.
Works Cited
1.Smith A.D. tenebrioniDBase
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.