Tarpela

Tarpela micans

Taxonavigation

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: Tenebrioninae
Tribus: Helopini
Genus: Tarpela
Species: T. americana – T. brownii – T. micans – T. oblongopunctata – T. todai – T. undulata – T. venusta

Name

• Tarpela F. Bates, 1870: 272
  • Gender: feminine

Synonymy

[source: Aalbu et al., 2002]

• Lamperos Allard, 1876

References

• Bates, F. 1870: Descriptions of new genera and species of Heteromera. Entomologist's monthly magazine, 6: 268–275. BHL

Additional references

• Aalbu, R.L., Triplehorn, C.A., Campbell, J.M., Brown, K.W., Somerby, R.E., & Thomas, D.B. 2002: Tenebrionidae Latreille 1802. Pp. 463-509 in: Arnett, R.H., Thomas, M.C., Skelley, P.E., & Frank, J.H. (eds.): American beetles. Vol. 2. Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. First page & excerpt
• Ando, K. 2006. Contribution to the Knowledge of Japanese Tenebrionidae (3) (Coleoptera). Entomological review of Japan 61(1): 29–32. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Steiner, W.E. 2009: The Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Virginia. Pp. 331-339 in: Roble, S.M. & Mitchell, J.C. (eds.) 2009: A lifetime of contributions to myriapodology and the natural history of Virginia: a Festschrift in honor of Richard L. Hoffman’s 80th birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 16, Martinsville, VA. PDF with color photos

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