Alobates

Alobates
Alobates pensylvanica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
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.

Alobates pensylvanica

Species

These two species belong to the genus Alobates:

• Alobates barbatus (Knoch, 1801) ^b
• Alobates pennsylvanica (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. "Alobates". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
2. "Alobates Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
3. "Alobates Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
4. "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System" . Retrieved 2018-04-17.
5. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-04-17.

Further reading

• 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

• Media related to Alobates at Wikimedia Commons