''Eleodes nigropilosa'' is a species of desert stink beetle 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 ...
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[ It is found in California and ]Baja California
Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...
.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.''
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Tenebrionidae
Beetles described in 1851
Taxa named by John Lawrence LeConte
Beetles of North America
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