Species Pentaphyllus testaceus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

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 Diaperinae

Tribe Diaperini

Subtribe Diaperina

Genus Pentaphyllus

Species testaceus (Pentaphyllus testaceus)

Explanation of Names

Pentaphyllus testaceus (Hellwig 1792)

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA (ON)(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: ON 2006(2)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	High Park, Toronto, Canada. Part 1. Pentaphyllus testaceus (Hellwig, 1792) (Col, Tenebrionidae) new to the Nearctic Region... Whitehead P.F. 2007. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 143: 181-186.

Contributed by v belov on 2 March, 2014 - 10:45am
Last updated 2 March, 2014 - 12:48pm

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