Laena opaca

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Lagriinae
Tribus: Laenini
Genus: Laena
Species: Laena opaca

Laena opaca Kaszab, 1970

Holotype: coll. Ardoin. female ♀. VII.1901.

Laena bikhebhanjangensis Masumoto, 1990 [syn. by Schawaller, 2002: 28]
- Type locality: Bikhebhaniang, 3,280m, Singalila Dara, West Bengal, India.
  - Holotype: NSMT. male ♂. 05.XI.1981. legit Y. Nishikawa.

Kaszab, Z. 1970. Fünf neue Tenebrioniden aus Asien (Coleoptera). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 21: 112–122. PDF. Reference page. [original description]

Masumoto, K. 1990. New Himalayan species of Laena (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) preserved in the collection of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A) 16: 175–196. full article PDF Reference page.
Schawaller, W. 2002. The genus Laena Latreille in Nepal, with taxonomic and faunistic notes on species from the adjacent Himalayas (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) 641: 1-69. Full article PDF Reference page. [material from Nepal, redescription, synonymy, distribution: p. 28, figs. 4–6]
Schawaller, W. 2012. The genus Laena Dejean (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in the eastern Himalayas (Darjeeling, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh), with descriptions of seven new species. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) (n.s.) 5: 257-269. Full article PDF Reference page. [mention: p. 261]