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. 2023 Nov 1;23(6):9.
doi: 10.1093/jisesa/iead106.

Carabidae and Tenebrionidae diversity in the Great Basin Province of California

Kirk C Tonkel  1 , Veronica S Kirchoff  2 , Brian G Rector  3
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Carabidae and Tenebrionidae diversity in the Great Basin Province of California

Kirk C Tonkel et al. J Insect Sci. .

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.

Keywords: carabid beetle; intermountain west; proxy species; species distribution; tenebrionid beetle.

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Map of Modoc Plateau (upper highlighted area) and East of the Sierra Region (lower highlighted area) of the Great Basin in California (Baldwin et al. 2012) and numbers designating field locations. 1 = Alturas; 2 = Adin; 3 = Belfast; 4 = Bull Flat; 5 = Little Valley; 6 = Owens Valley.
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