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.
| Alobates | |
|---|---|
.jpg)
| |
| Alobates pensylvanica | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Tribe: | Cnodalonini |
| Genus: | Alobates Motschoulsky, 1872 |
Species edit
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 edit
- ^ a b "Alobates". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ^ a b "Alobates Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ^ "Alobates Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-17.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-17.
Further reading edit
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 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.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMC 3088472. 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. PMC 5799738. PMID 29416389.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links edit
Media related to Alobates at Wikimedia Commons
 | This Tenebrionidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |