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Species Eleodes extricata

Darkling beetle Aug 3 - Eleodes extricata

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 Litheleodes)

Species extricata (Eleodes extricata)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eleodes extricatus

Explanation of Names

Eleodes extricata (Say 1824)

Size

♂ 12–15 mm, ♀ 11.0–17.6 mm(1)

Range

w Canada (BC-SK) to n Mexico (in the US, east to w NE-TX); one of the most widespread species of the genus(1)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of Eleodes subgenus Litheleodes Blaisdell (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Triplehorn C.A., Thomas D.B. 2015. Col. Bull. 69(mo4): 11‒21.

Contributed by v belov on 5 September, 2014 - 6:37pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche
Last updated 24 September, 2022 - 6:57pm

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