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''Alobates (
Motschulsky
Victor Ivanovich Motschulsky (sometimes Victor von Motschulsky, russian: link=no, Виктор Иванович Мочульский, 11 April 1810, in St. Petersburg – 5 June 1871, in Simferopol) was a Russian entomologist mainly interested in ...
1872)'' is a genus of darkling beetle
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 gen ...
s in the family 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 gen ...
. The name likely comes from Greek 'alo' (variant of allo) meaning 'other', and 'bates' meaning 'one who treads/haunts'. There are at least two described species in ''Alobates''. These species are often misidentified, but can be differentiated by a view of the mentum
The mentum is an anatomical structure, a projecting feature that is near the mouth of a variety of animals:
*In insects, the mentum is the distal part of the labium. The mentum bears the palps, glossae, paraglossae, and/or ligula.
*On the huma ...
of the head ventral. '' A. barbatus'' have a tuft of long yellow setae
In biology, setae (singular seta ; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms.
Animal setae
Protostomes
Annelid setae are stiff bristles present on the body. Th ...
, while '' A. pensylvanicus'' does not.
Species
These two species belong to the genus ''Alobates'': * '' Alobates barbatus'' (Knoch, 1801) b * '' Alobates pensylvanicus'' (DeGeer, 1775) g b Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net The species ''Alobates pensylvanicus'' is sometimes erroneously spelled "pennsylvanica" or "pensylvanica".References
Further reading
* * * * * *External links
* Tenebrionidae Tenebrionidae genera {{tenebrionidae-stub