Pimelia angulata
{{Short description|Species of beetle}}
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| taxon = Pimelia angulata
| authority = Fabricius, 1775
| synonyms =
- Pimelia consobrina Lucas, 1858
- Pimelia retrospinosa Lucas, 1858
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Pimelia angulata is a species of darkling beetles in the subfamily Pimeliinae.
Subspecies
- Pimelia angulata angulata Fabricius, 1775
- Pimelia angulata angulosa Olivier, 1795
- Pimelia angulata antiaegypta Koch, 1937
Description
Pimelia angulata can reach a length of about {{convert|25|-|35|mm}}.[http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=136633 Le monde des insectes] The body is black, slightly glossy. The elytra show a few lines of small spikes or short tubercles. These beetles are diurnal, emerging in early morning and late evening but hiding in small groups under the sand during the hot hours of the day.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sahara-nature.com/arthropodes.php?species=tenebrionidae |title=Sahara-nature |access-date=2015-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320170844/http://www.sahara-nature.com/arthropodes.php?species=tenebrionidae |archive-date=2018-03-20 |url-status=dead }}Fabricius, J. C. 1775. [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN578515547&DMDID=&LOGID=LOG_0001&PHYSID=PHYS_0001 Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs] pag. 252. Flensbvrgi, Lipsiae. (Kort)
Distribution and habitat
This species is present in the lower Egypt, in the northern and south-eastern Sinai, Mauritania, Israel and in Sudan. It is adapted to arid climates and desert environments.Martin Lillig,Tomáš Pavlíček [https://books.google.com/books?id=IyPMW_eFxr8C&dq=Pimelia+angulata&pg=PA39 The Darkling Beetles of the Sinai Peninsula: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae] Die Deutsche Bibliothek[http://www.entomologiitaliani.net/public/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=44938 Entomologi Italiani]Isabelle Desportes, Joseph Schrével [https://books.google.com/books?id=YxNOPQN7LJQC&dq=Pimelia+angulata&pg=PA764 Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Gregarines of Hexapoda]
Bibliography
- Niccole D. Rech [https://books.google.com/books?id=cBritgAACAAJ The Effect of Temperature on Oviposition in Pimelia Angulata (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)] Minot State University, 2002
- Adolf Andres [https://books.google.com/books?id=hDxXMwEACAAJ Note sur Pimelia angulata Fak. et espèces voisines et description d'une variété nouvelle (1929)]
- FIORI G., 1954 – Morfologia addominale, anatomia ed istologia degli apparati genitali di «Pimelia angulata Confalonierii» Grid. (Coleoptera Tenebrionidae) e formazione dello spermatoforo. - Boll. Ist. Entom. Univ. Bologna
References
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Category:Beetles described in 1775