Tarpela

Tarpela
Tarpela micans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Tenebrionidae
Tribe:Helopini
Genus:Tarpela
Bates, 1870

Tarpela is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about five described species in Tarpela.[1][2][3]

Tarpela micans

Species

These five species belong to the genus Tarpela:

  • Tarpela americana (Beauvois) b
  • Tarpela formosana Masumoto, 1981 g
  • Tarpela micans (F.) g b
  • Tarpela venusta (Say) b
  • Tarpela zoltani Masumoto, 1981 g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Tarpela". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  2. 1 2 "Tarpela Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  3. ↑ "Tarpela Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  4. ↑ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-11.
  5. ↑ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-11.

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.

  • Media related to Tarpela at Wikimedia Commons


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