''Itagonia'' is a genus of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

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 majority of species are found in

Southwest China Southwest China () is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China. Geography Southwest China is a rugged and mountainous region, transitioning between the Tibetan Plateau to the west and the Chinese coastal hills (东南丘陵) and ...

, but two are found in the more central and northern parts of the country, from

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and

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

. They are relatively small and robust-bodied beetles.

Species

The following species are accepted within ''Itagonia'': * '' Itagonia baxoica'' * '' Itagonia bisetosa'' * '' Itagonia cordiformis'' * '' Itagonia elegans'' * '' Itagonia gnaptorinoides'' * '' Itagonia litangensis'' * '' Itagonia longicornis'' * '' Itagonia medvedevi'' * '' Itagonia mera'' * '' Itagonia provostii'' * '' Itagonia semenovi'' * '' Itagonia shamaevi'' * '' Itagonia szetschwana'' * '' Itagonia tibialis'' * '' Itagonia trisetosa'' * '' Itagonia tuberculata'' * '' Itagonia xinlongensis'' * '' Itagonia zayica''

References

Tenebrionidae Taxa named by Edmund Reitter Tenebrionidae genera {{Tenebrionidae-stub