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Trogidae
Trogidae, sometimes called hide beetles, is a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance. Found worldwide, the family includes about 300 species contained in four or five genera. Trogids range in length from 2 to 20 mm. Their shape is oblong to oval, with a generally flat abdomen. Their color ranges from brown to gray or black, and they often encrust their bodies with soil. They resemble Scarabaeidae, scarab beetles with heavy limbs and spurs. They are scavengers and are among the last species to visit and feed on carrion. They are most often found on the dry remains of dead animals. Both adults and larvae eat feathers and skin. Some species are found in bird and mammal nests. Details of the life histories of many species are poorly known, since many are specialized to particular types of nests. They are often overlooked by predators and collectors due to their behaviors of covering their bodies with soil and becoming motionless when disturbed. This group ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paratrox
''Paratrox medvedevi'' is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Mongolia around 125 to 113 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous. ''P. medvedevi'' is the only species of the genus ''Paratrox''. References Trogidae, † Fossil taxa described in 2009 Prehistoric beetles {{Trogidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cretomorgus
''Cretomorgus ikhbogdensis'' is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Mongolia during the Lower Cretaceous, approximately 112 million years ago, making it the earliest preserved species of the subfamily Omorginae. ''C. ikhbogdensis'' is the sole species of the genus ''Cretomorgus''. References † A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). It is one of the mo ... Fossil taxa described in 2007 Fossil beetle genera Monotypic Scarabaeiformia genera Monotypic prehistoric insect genera {{Trogidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kresnikus
''Kresnikus beynoni'' is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Northern Myanmar during the mid-Cretaceous. ''K. beynoni'' is the only species of both the genus ''Kresnikus'' and the subfamily Kresnikinae. References † A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). It is one of the mo ... Fossil taxa described in 2020 Fossil beetle genera Monotypic prehistoric insect genera {{Trogidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avitortor
''Avitortor'' is an extinct, fossil genus of hide beetle that lived during the Lower Cretaceous. ''Avitortor'' is the only genus of the subfamily Avitortorinae. Species *''Avitortor dolichodactylus'' Nikolajev 2007 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian *''Avitortor leptoscelis'' Nikritin 1977 Zaza Formation The Zaza Formation is a geological formation located in Buryatia (Russia). It dates to the Lower Cretaceous. The age of the formation is disputed, and is considered likely to be Valanginian-Hauterivian, or Aptian in age. It comprises sandstones, ..., Russia, Aptian *''Avitortor ovalis'' Nikolajev 2007 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian *''Avitortor parallelus'' Nikolajev 2007 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian *''Avitortor primitivus'' Ponomarenko, 1977 References Trogidae Fossil beetle genera Fossil taxa described in 1977 {{paleo-beetle-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kresnikus Beynoni
''Kresnikus beynoni'' is an extinct, fossil species of hide beetle that lived in modern-day Northern Myanmar during the mid-Cretaceous. ''K. beynoni'' is the only species of both the genus ''Kresnikus'' and the subfamily Kresnikinae. References † A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). It is one of the mo ... Fossil taxa described in 2020 Fossil beetle genera Monotypic prehistoric insect genera {{Trogidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trox Sabulosus
Trox sabulosus, commonly known as the sandy hide beetle, is a beetle of the family Trogidae. It is found across Europe, with some found in India and USA The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous .... References sabulosus Beetles described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Trogidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trox Sabulosus Head
''Trox'' is a genus of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae. Taxonomy The genus formerly included 160 species, but the subgenera '' Phoberus'' and '' Glyptotrox'' have been elevated as their own separate genera, while various ''Trox'' species have been merged or otherwise combined, giving a considerably smaller genus. The genus ''Trox'' now contains three subgenera - ''Trox (Trox)'', ''Trox (Niditrox)'', and ''Trox (Granulitrox)'' -, with the following species: Subgenus ''Trox'' *'' Trox acanthinus'' Harold, 1872 *'' Trox antiquus'' Wickham, 1909 *'' Trox cadaverinus'' Illiger, 1802 *''Trox capillaris'' Say, 1824 *''Trox contractus'' Robinson, 1940 *'' Trox coracinus'' Gmelin, 1788 *'' Trox cretaceus'' Nikolajev, 2007 *'' Trox floridanus'' Howden & Vaurie, 1957 *'' Trox gansuensis'' Ren, 2003 *''Trox gemmulatus'' Horn, 1874 *''Trox horiguchii'' Ochi & Kawahara, 2002 *''Trox lama'' Pittino, 1985 *''Trox lutosus'' (Marsham, 1802) *''Trox maurus'' Herbst, 1790 *''Trox minutus'' Nik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sclerite
A sclerite (Greek language, Greek , ', meaning "hardness, hard") is a hardened body part. In various branches of biology the term is applied to various structures, but not as a rule to vertebrate anatomical features such as bones and teeth. Instead it refers most commonly to the hardened parts of arthropod exoskeletons and the internal wikt:spicule, spicules of invertebrates such as certain sponges and Alcyonacea, soft corals. In paleontology, a scleritome is the complete set of sclerites of an organism, often all that is known from fossil invertebrates. Sclerites in combination Sclerites may occur practically isolated in an organism, such as the Stinger, sting of a Conus, cone shell. Also, they can be more or less scattered, such as tufts of defensive sharp, mineralised bristles as in many marine polychaetes. Or, they can occur as structured, but unconnected or loosely connected arrays, such as the mineral "teeth" in the radula of many Mollusca, the Valve (mollusc), valves of chit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described arthropods and 25% of all known animal species; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. However, the number of beetle species is challenged by the number of species in Fly, dipterans (flies) and hymenopterans (wasps). Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly treated as subfamilies have been elevated to family rank (e.g., Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Glaphyridae, Hybosoridae, Ochodaeidae, and Pleocomidae), and some reduced to lower ranks. The subfamilies listed in this article are in accordance with those in Catalog of Life (2023). Description Scarabs are stout-bodied beetles; most are brown or black in colour, but many, generally species that are diurnally active, have bright metallic colours, measuring between . The antenna (biology), antennae of most species superficially seem to be knobbed (capitate), but the several segments comprising the head of the antenna are, as a rule, lamellate: they extend laterally into plates called lamella (zoology), lamellae that they usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
