Bothrotes

Bothrotes
Bothrotes canaliculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Tenebrionidae
Tribe:	Epitragini
Genus:	Bothrotes Casey, 1907

Bothrotes is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least 2 described species in Bothrotes. ^{[1] [2]}

Bothrotes canaliculatus

Species

• Bothrotes canaliculatus (Say)
• Bothrotes plumbeus

References

1. "Bothrotes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
2. Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys 728: 1-455.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.