''Asbolus'' is a small genus of
darkling beetle
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.
Taxonomy
''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles ...
s, beetles of the family Tenebrionidae. They occur in the southwestern United States and Mexico. There are four species:
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Asbolus laevis''
LeConte, 1851
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Asbolus mexicanus''
(Champion, 1884)
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Asbolus papillosus''
(Triplehorn, 1964)
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Asbolus verrucosus
''Asbolus verrucosus'' (LeConte, 1852), also known as the desert ironclad beetle or blue death feigning beetle, is a species of darkling beetle native to southwestern United States (southern California to Utah and New Mexico) and northwestern Mex ...
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(LeConte, 1851)
References
Pimeliinae
Beetles of North America
Tenebrionidae genera
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