Eleodes (Eleodes) armatus LeConte, 1851

Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) 69, pp. 27-54 : 44

Eleodes (Eleodes) armatus LeConte, 1851

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Diagnosis. Body elongate, robust. All femora spined in both sexes. Pronotum widest just before middle, arcuate laterally, anterior angles projected and acute. Elytra parallel-sided (males) to moderately inflated (females), smooth and faintly punctatestriate. Prosternum projected posterior of procoxae, deflexed ventrally at apex.

Distribution. Mohave, Coconino, La Paz, Yavapai, Yuma, Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties, Arizona. California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon. Sonora and Baja California, Mexico.

Remarks. This species is commonly encountered and at once recognizable by having all femora spined, a character only shared with several other species from Baja California. Eleodes armatus is abundant and often the only species of Eleodes found in the lower Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of southern and western Arizona.

Figures

Fig. 4. Eleodes species, dorsal habitus. A) E. armatus, male, B) E. tricostatus, C) E. suturalis, D) E. halli. Scale bars = 1 cm.