The helmet toktokkies (genus ''Ocnodes'') are ground-dwelling,
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...
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 40 ...
s in the family
Tenebrionidae
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 ...
.
Species
The species include:
* ''
Ocnodes argenteofasciatum''
Koch C3
* ''
Ocnodes benguelense''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes cardiopterus''
Fairmaire LMH 1888
* ''
Ocnodes cinerarium''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes cordiventre''
Haag-Rutenberg JG 1871
* ''
Ocnodes dubiosum''
Péringuey LA 1899
* ''
Ocnodes erichsoni''
Haag-Rutenberg JG 1871
* ''
Ocnodes fistucans''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes gibberosulum''
Péringuey 1908
* ''
Ocnodes granisterna''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes granulosicollis''
* ''
Ocnodes imbricatum''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes kulzeri''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes martinsi''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes mendicum''
Péringuey LA 1899
* ''
Ocnodes mendicum estermanni''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes notata''
(Thunberg, 1787)
* ''
Ocnodes osbecki''
(Billberg 1815)
* ''
Ocnodes pachysoma''
Péringuey LA 1892
* ''
Ocnodes pachysoma ornata''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes punctipenne''
Harold von E 1879
* ''
Ocnodes rikaae''
Koch
* ''
Ocnodes semiscaber''
Haag-Rutenberg
* ''
Ocnodes sericolle''
Koch 1952
* ''
Ocnodes spinigerum''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes tarsocnoides''
Koch C2
* ''
Ocnodes tenebrosum
The helmet toktokkies (genus ''Ocnodes'') are ground-dwelling, Afrotropics, Afrotropical beetles in the family Tenebrionidae.
Species
The species include:
* ''Ocnodes argenteofasciatum'' Koch C3
* ''Ocnodes benguelense'' Koch C2
* ''Ocnodes card ...
''
Erichson WF 1843
* ''
Ocnodes tenebrosum melanarium''
Haag-Rutenberg JG 1871
* ''
Ocnodes vaticinus''
Péringuey LA 1899
* ''
Ocnodes virago''
Koch
References
External links
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Pimeliinae
Tenebrionidae genera