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Eleodes (commonly known as pinacate beetles or desert stink beetles) is a genus of darkling beetles, in the family Tenebrionidae. [1] They are endemic to western North America ranging from southern Canada to central Mexico with many species found along the Mexico-United States border. [2] Some species have been introduced to Colombia.
The Latin species name olens, meaning "smelling", refers to the two white stinking glands on the abdomen. [4] This beetle has been associated with the Devil since the Middle Ages, hence its common name, which has been used at least since 1840. [5] Other names include devil's footman, devil's coachman, and devil's steed.
Adult dogbane beetles are typically an iridescent blue-green color, an appearance that plays to their advantage as it wards off predators. The beetle is typically eight to eleven millimeters in length with an oblong and convex shape. It has a bluish black undersurface. The beetle possesses a pair of antennae that are long and twelve joined ...
Adults are large-bodied and black, with very long antennae; in males, they can be up to twice the body length, but in females they are only slightly longer than body length. Both sexes have a white spot on the base of the wings, and may have white spots covering the wings. Both males and females also have a spine on the side of the prothorax. [2]
Moneilema, or cactus longhorn beetles are a genus of large, flightless, black beetles found in North American deserts of the western United States and northern Mexico. M. gigas is native to the Sonoran Desert at elevations below 4900 feet (1500m). [ 1 ]
Lebia tricolor, genus Lebia, in the family of ground beetles, searching for prey. Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, [2] the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. [3] As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal families.
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The underside of the beetle has a coppery colour, and its upper side is sometimes bronze, copper, violet, blue/black, or grey. Cetonia aurata should not be confused with the North American rose chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus , or with the rarely seen noble chafer , Gnorimus nobilis , which is very similar to the rose chafer.