{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Gorgeous Teneb - Flickr - treegrow (2).jpg | image_caption = ''Alobates pensylvanica'' | taxon = Alobates | authority = Motschoulsky, 1872 }}

'''''Alobates''' <small>(Motschulsky 1872)</small>'' is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. The name likely comes from Greek 'alo' (variant of allo) meaning 'other', and 'bates' meaning 'one who treads/haunts'. There are at least two described species in ''Alobates''.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=bugref/><ref name=eol/> These species are often misidentified, but can be differentiated by a view of the mentum of the head ventral. ''A. barbatus'' have a tuft of long yellow setae, while ''A. pensylvanicus'' does not. thumb|''Alobates pensylvanica''

==Species== These two species belong to the genus ''Alobates'': * ''Alobates barbatus'' <small>(Knoch, 1801)</small><span style="color:gray"><sup> b</sup></span> * ''Alobates pennsylvanica'' <small>(DeGeer, 1775) <span style="color:gray"><sup>g b</sup></span></small> <small>Data sources: i = ITIS,<ref name=itis/> c = Catalogue of Life,<ref name=catlife/> g = GBIF,<ref name=gbif/> b = Bugguide.net<ref name=bugref/></small>

The species ''Alobates pensylvanicus'' is sometimes erroneously spelled "pennsylvanica" or "pensylvanica".

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System | url=https://www.itis.gov/ | accessdate=2018-04-17 }}</ref> <ref name=eol> {{Cite web| title=''Alobates'' Overview | url=http://eol.org/pages/3279996/overview | website=Encyclopedia of Life | accessdate=2018-04-17 }}</ref> <ref name=catlife> {{Cite web| title=Catalogue of Life | url=http://www.catalogueoflife.org/ | accessdate=2018-04-17 }}</ref> <ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Alobates'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4724361 | website=GBIF | accessdate=2018-04-17 }}</ref> <ref name=bugref> {{Cite web| title=''Alobates'' Genus Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/7291 | website=BugGuide.net | accessdate=2018-04-17 }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = R.H. Jr. | editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = M. C. | editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = P. E. | editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. H. | date = 2002 | title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea | publisher = CRC Press | isbn = 978-0849309540 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Blatchley | first1 = W.S. | date = 1910 | title = An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up | publisher = Nature Pub. }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Bouchard | first1 = Patrice | last2 = Bousquet | first2 = Yves | last3 = Davies | first3 = Anthony E. | last4 = Alonso-Zarazaga | first4 = Miguel A. | last5 = Lawrence | first5 = John F. | last6 = Lyal | first6 = Chris H. C. | last7 = Newton | first7 = Alfred F. | last8 = Reid | first8 = Chris A. M. | last9 = Schmitt | first9 = Michael | last10 = Ślipiński | first10 = S. Adam | last11 = Smith | first11 = Andrew B. T. | display-authors = 4 | date = 2011 | title = Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) | journal = ZooKeys | publisher = Pensoft Publishers | issue = 88 | pages = 1–972 | issn = 1313-2989 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 | pmid = 21594053 | pmc = 3088472 | doi-access = free }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Bousquet | first1 = Y. | last2 = Thomas | first2 = D.B. | last3 = Bouchard | first3 = P. | last4 = Smith | first4 = A.D. | last5 = Aalbu | first5 = R.L. | last6 = Johnston | first6 = A.M. | last7 = Steiner | first7 = W.E. Jr. | display-authors = 4 | date = 2018 | title = Catalogue of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of North America | journal = ZooKeys | issue = 728 | pages = 1–455 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.728.20602 | pmid = 29416389 | doi-access = free | pmc = 5799738 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = LeConte | first1 = J.L. | date = 1861 | title = Classification of the Coleoptera of North America | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732 | series = Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | volume = 3 | issue = 136 | isbn = 0665100558 | doi = 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 | doi-access = free }} * {{Cite book | last1 = White | first1 = Richard E. | date = 1998 | orig-date = 1983 | title = A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | isbn = 0395910897 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894 }} {{refend}}

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