FAMILY TENEBRIONIDAE (Darkling Beetles)

Coleoptera-Tenebrionidae-Eleodes anthracina-Desert Stink Beetles (C)

Eleodes anthracina

Near Shaffer Wash
Pima County, Arizona
Coordinates: 31.707901, -111.548760
Elevation: 3,847 ft
October 26, 2019
Determined by Salvador Vitanza
Confirmed by Dr. Andrew Johnston who said: “I would happily call it Eleodes anthracina. The best character for splitting it from various E. carbonaria subspecies is the prosternal process, but the punctation and overall shape is spot on for this to be E. anthracina.”

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