Araeoschizus sulcicollis

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Araeoschizus sulcicollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Beetle
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Tenebrionidae
Genus: Araeoschizus
Species: A. sulcicollis
Binomial name
Araeoschizus sulcicollis
Horn, 1870

Diagnosis

Group IV: The regularis Horn (1870) complex: Femora not toothed. Prothorax with longitudinal groove. Elytral interspaces without squamules

Description

Distribution

CALIFORNIA: Kern and lnyo Counties. - NEVADA: Nye County collected in nests of Pogonomyrmex sp., Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, Pheidole bicarinata, P. barbata, and P hyatti.

Biology

REFERENCES

  • Horn, G.H. 1870. Revision of the Tenebrionidae of America, North of Mexico. Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., 14 (64):253-404.
  • Papp,C.S. 1981. Revision of the genus Araeoschizus LeConte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 29: 273-420.
  • Papp, C.S. 2001. Two new Araeoschizus species from the Vizcaino Peninsula of Baja California sur, Mexico and discussion of species groups: (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science.37 (1):