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Eleodes Littoralis
''Eleodes littoralis'' is a species of desert stink beetle in the family Tenebrionidae. It is found in California. Due to its hair, it is similar to ''Eleodes osculans'' and ''Eleodes nigropilosa ''Eleodes nigropilosa'' is a species of desert stink beetle in the family Tenebrionidae. It is found in California and Baja California. Due to its hair, it is similar to ''Eleodes osculans ''Eleodes osculans'', the wooly darkling beetle or wo ....'' References Further reading * External links * Tenebrionidae {{Improve categories, date=May 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenebrionidae
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae. The number of species in the Tenebrionidae is estimated at more than 20,000 and the family is cosmopolitan in distribution. Taxonomy ''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles in his ''10th edition of Systema Naturae'' 1758-59. The word means "seeker of dark places" (or figuratively a trickster); an English language analogy is "darkling". Numerous Tenebrionidae species do inhabit dark places, however, there are many species in genera such as ''Stenocara'' and ''Onymacris'', which are active by day and inactive at night. The family covers a varied range of forms, such that classification presents great difficulties. These eleven subfamilies were listed in the 2021 review by Bouchard, Bousquet, ''et al.'', updating a similar catalog from 2005.Bouchard, Patrice. Lawrence, John F. Davies, Anthony E. Newton, Alfred F. Synoptic Classification of the World Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleodes Osculans
''Eleodes osculans'', the wooly darkling beetle or woolly ground beetle, is a common insect in coastal southern and central California in wooded areas or chaparral, and in Baja California. As a stink beetle of genus ''Eleodes'', its easily observed defensive posture is to raise its hind end and secrete an unpleasant odor. ''E. osculans'' has a length of 12-16 mm and is the only known darkling beetle species with reddish-brown hair covering most of its black exoskeleton An exoskeleton (from Greek ''éxō'' "outer" and ''skeletós'' "skeleton") is an external skeleton that supports and protects an animal's body, in contrast to an internal skeleton (endoskeleton) in for example, a human. In usage, some of the .... It is similar to '' Eleodes nigropilosa'' and '' Eleodes littoralis'', which have darker hair. References Further reading * ; ; ; (eds.) 2002: ''American beetles. Volume 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Floridalimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleodes Nigropilosa
''Eleodes nigropilosa'' is a species of desert stink beetle in the family Tenebrionidae. It is found in California and Baja California. Due to its hair, it is similar to ''Eleodes osculans ''Eleodes osculans'', the wooly darkling beetle or woolly ground beetle, is a common insect in coastal southern and central California in wooded areas or chaparral, and in Baja California. As a stink beetle of genus ''Eleodes'', its easily obser ...'' and '' Eleodes littoralis.'' References Further reading * External links * Tenebrionidae Beetles described in 1851 Taxa named by John Lawrence LeConte Beetles of North America {{tenebrionidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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