Tarpela is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are about five described species in Tarpela.[1][2][3]
| Tarpela | |
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| Tarpela micans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Tribe: | Helopini |
| Genus: | Tarpela Bates, 1870 |
Species
editThese five species belong to the genus Tarpela:
- Tarpela formosana Masumoto, 1981 g
- Tarpela micans (Fabricius, 1798) g b
- Tarpela undulata (LeConte, 1866) b
- Tarpela venusta (Say, 124) b
- Tarpela zoltani Masumoto, 1981 g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Tarpela". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ a b "Tarpela Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Tarpela Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-11.
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
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