Bug FAQTetragonoderus pallidus
Tetragonoderus pallidus · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Carabidae
Tetragonoderus pallidus is a beetle in the family Carabidae. It lives only in the Sonoran Desert of the southwestern United States and Mexico.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Tetragonoderus pallidus belongs to the beetle family Carabidae.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
Its habitat is the Sonoran Desert.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 5 of 51 states and DC. Most records: New Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Carabidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragonoderus_pallidus
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