Small-eyed Flour Beetle
Palorus ratzeburgii (Wissmann, 1848)
Small-eyed Flour Beetle: https://mail.marylandbiodiversity.org/species/13361
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Status

"Maryland specimens of the two species of Palorus and Myrmechixenus lathridioides are unknown, but these species are included here based on specimen records from Washington, D.C." (Steiner, 2008)

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Palorus ratzeburgii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Tenebrionidae
Genus: Palorus
Species:
P. ratzeburgii
Binomial name
Palorus ratzeburgii
(Wissmann, 1848)

Palorus ratzeburgii, the small-eyed flour beetle, is a species of darkling beetle in the family Tenebrionidae.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Palorus ratzeburgii Species 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

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  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • 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.