Tenebroides, Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783

Kippenhan, Michael G., 2022, The Bark-Gnawing Beetles of Montana, USA (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae, Peltidae, and Lophocateridae), Including New Substantial Distributional Records for Tenebroides collaris (Sturm), The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (4), pp. 569-576 : 573

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-76.4.569

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scientific name

Tenebroides
status

 

TeNeBROIDeS Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783 View in CoL View at ENA

The vast majority of the 145 extant species of this genus are recorded from the Western Hemisphere ( Kolibáč 2013). Members of this genus can be challenging to identify, especially single specimens.All of the 18 Nearctic species are known to be predators of other insects ( Barron 1971). Five species are now known from Montana.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Trogossitidae

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