''Microschatia inaequalis'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
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 ...
indigenous to North America.
It is found southern California south of Los Angeles and in northern Baja California Norte.
References
Beetles of North America
Taxa named by John Lawrence LeConte
Insects described in 1851
Pimeliinae
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