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Species Alobates barbatus

Florida Beetle for ID - Alobates barbatus

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

Species barbatus (Alobates barbatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

in most publications erroneously referred to as Alobates morio (Fabricius) --see (1) for explanation

Explanation of Names

Alobates barbatus (Knoch 1801)

Size

15-21 mm(2)

Identification

Mentum with tuft of long yellowish setae

Range

e US (MA-FL to WI-KS-TX)(1)

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.	Tenebrionoidea of South Carolina Janet C. Ciegler. 2014. Clemson University.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 30 January, 2007 - 5:56am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov, roar
Last updated 22 September, 2023 - 7:27pm

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