Alphitobius
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Alphitobius laevigatus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Tenebrionidae |
Tribe: | Alphitobiini |
Genus: | Alphitobius Stephens, 1829 |
Alphitobius is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about 16 described species in Alphitobius.[1][2][3][4]
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Alphitobius laevigatus
Species
These 16 species belong to the genus Alphitobius:
- Alphitobius acutangulus Gebien, 1921 g
- Alphitobius crenatus (Klug, 1833) g
- Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer, 1797) i c g b (lesser mealworm)
- Alphitobius grandis Fairmaire, 1897 g
- Alphitobius hobohmi Koch, 1953 g
- Alphitobius karrooensis Koch, 1953 g
- Alphitobius kochi Ardoin, 1958 g
- Alphitobius laevigatus (Fabricius, 1781) i c g b (black fungus beetle)
- Alphitobius lamottei Ardoin, 1963 g
- Alphitobius leleupi Koch, 1953 g
- Alphitobius limbalis Fairmaire, 1901 g
- Alphitobius lucasorum Bremer, 1985 g
- Alphitobius niger Ferrer, 1983 g
- Alphitobius parallelipennis Koch, 1953 g
- Alphitobius rugosulus Koch, 1953 g
- Alphitobius viator Mulsant & Godart, 1868 g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
- 1 2 "Alphitobius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- 1 2 "Browse Alphitobius". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- 1 2 "Alphitobius". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
- 1 2 "Alphitobius Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-21.
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
- Bousquet, Y.; Thomas, D.B.; Bouchard, P.; Smith, A.D.; et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys. 728. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
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