Tenebroides sinuatus (LeConte, 1861)

Kippenhan, Michael G., 2022, The Bark-Gnawing Beetles of Montana, USA (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae, Peltidae, and Lophocateridae), Including New Substantial Distributional Records for Tenebroides collaris (Sturm), The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (4), pp. 569-576 : 574

TeNeBROIDeS SINuAtuS (LeConte, 1861)

This species has a scattered distribution in the US and Canada west of the Great Plains. Twelve of 15 specimens were collected by either Lindgren funnel or vane traps, all from the forested Rocky Mountain NFM ecoregion. Hatch (1961) recorded it from “under bark of Tsuga heterophylla , Pseudotsuga taxifolia , and Pinus ponderosa ”, all three of which have a scattered distribution throughout the NFM ecoregion ( Little 1980).

County Records ( Fig. 2H ): Beaverhead (1), Flathead (1), Granite (1), Jefferson (1), Lincoln (1), Mineral (3), Missoula (1), Ravalli (2), Sanders (4).

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Fig. 2. Distribution of 12 species of bark-gnawing beetles by county in Montana.A) Calitys scabra, B) Corticotomus caviceps, C) Temnoscheila chlorodia, D) Tenebroides collaris, E) Tenebroides corticalis, F) Tenebroides crassicornis, G) Tenebroides occidentalis, H) Tenebroides sinuatus, I) Peltis fraterna, J) Peltis pippingskoeldi, K) Peltis septentrionalis, L) Eronyxa angusta.