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- Title
Carabidae and Tenebrionidae diversity in the Great Basin Province of California.
- Authors
Tonkel, Kirk C; Kirchoff, Veronica S; Rector, Brian G
- Abstract
The high desert regions of eastern California within the Great Basin are vast areas of shrub-dominated habitat heavily impacted by invasive exotic grasses and forbs. Trapping efforts within these areas provided distributional information about various surface-active arthropod taxa. Two groups with high species diversity and abundance encountered at our sites were the coleopteran families Carabidae and Tenebrionidae. Here, we report trapping of 45 species of carabids and 46 species of tenebrionids, along with mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) sequence data for 65 of these 92 species. These results build upon existing distributional information regarding these families in California and further refine our knowledge of the biodiversity of the understudied Great Basin provinces.
- Subjects
GREAT Basin; CALIFORNIA; TENEBRIONIDAE; CYTOCHROME oxidase; DESERTS; SPECIES diversity; GROUND beetles
- Publication
Journal of Insect Science, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 6, p1
- ISSN
1536-2442
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jisesa/iead106