Armored night-walker

Nyctoporis carinata

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae

Nyctoporis carinata, also known as the armored night-walker and the flightless darkling beetle, is a species of beetle native to California along the coast and the Coast Ranges. Adult Nyctoporis carinata reach 12–16 millimetres (0. 47–0.

Distribution

Armored night-walker — (c) Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 124Mexico · 2

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionNyctoporis carinata, Wikipedia contributors

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