Palorus Explained

Palorus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least 4 described species in Palorus.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

• Palorus foveicollis Blair, 1930
• Palorus ratzeburgi (Wissmann, 1848)
• Palorus ratzeburgii (Wissmann, 1848) (small-eyed flour beetle)
• Palorus subdepressus (Wollaston, 1864) (depressed flour beetle)

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Book: Ross H. Arnett. 30 July 2000. American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Palorus Genus Information. BugGuide.net. 2018-02-03.
2. Web site: Palorus Report. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 2018-02-03.
3. Bousquet Y, Thomas DB, Bouchard P, Smith AD, Aalbu RL, Johnston AM, Steiner WE Jr (2018). "Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America". ZooKeys 728: 1-455.