Araeoschizus costipennis

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Araeoschizus costipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Beetle
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Tenebrionidae
Genus: Araeoschizus
Species: A. costipennis
Binomial name
Araeoschizus costipennis
LeConte, 1851

Diagnosis

Group V: The costipennis LeConte (1851) complex: Femora not toothed. Prothorax without longitudinal groove. Elytral interspaces with squamules

Description

Distribution

CALIFORNIA: San Diego, Imperial an Riverside Counties.

Biology

REFERENCES

  • LeConte, J.L.: 1851. Description of new species of Coleoptera from California. -Lyceum of Nat. Hist. New York, 5:125-184 (p. 138). *
  • 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):