Biology:Alobates
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Short description: Genus of beetles
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| Alobates pensylvanica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Tribe: | Cnodalonini |
| Genus: | Alobates Motschoulsky, 1872 |
Alobates (Motschulsky 1872) is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. 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.[1][2][3] These species are often misidentified, but can be differentiated by a view of the mentum of the head ventral. A. barbatus have a tuft of long yellow setae, 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,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]
The species Alobates pensylvanicus is sometimes erroneously spelled "pennsylvanica" or "pensylvanica".
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Alobates". https://www.gbif.org/species/4724361. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Alobates Genus Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/7291. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ↑ "Alobates Overview". http://eol.org/pages/3279996/overview. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ↑ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". https://www.itis.gov/. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ↑ "Catalogue of Life". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
Further reading
- American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. 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.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (Pensoft Publishers) (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 21594053.
- Bousquet, Y.; Thomas, D.B.; Bouchard, P.; Smith, A.D. et al. (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys (728): 1–455. doi:10.3897/zookeys.728.20602. PMID 29416389.
- 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q21368894 entry
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