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Species Trox spinulosus

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
Family Trogidae (Hide Beetles)
Genus Trox (Hide Beetles)
Species spinulosus (Trox spinulosus)
Explanation of Names
Trox spinulosus Robinson 1940
Numbers
3 sspp.(1)
Size
5‒7 mm(1)
Range
ON‒VA‒LA‒AZ; n. Mexico(1)(2)(3)(4)
Food
T. s. simi: hen feathers, mouse hair, dead crow, mole, old carpet, and owl pellets (Robinson 1940, 1941); for T. s. spinulosus and T. s. dentibius (intergrading in TX) no data available; collected in TX from a mouse's nest under a stone and on carrion(1)
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Trox in North America (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Vaurie P. 1955. Bull. AMNH 106: 1‒89.
2.New distribution records of North American Trox (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
Vaurie P. 1958. Col. Bull. 12: 43-46.
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
4.An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas.
Edward G. Riley & Charles S. Wolfe. 2003. Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement. 37 pp.