Heliotaurus ruficollis (Fabricius, 1781) is a animal in the Tenebrionidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Heliotaurus ruficollis (Fabricius, 1781)

Heliotaurus ruficollis (Fabricius, 1781)

Heliotaurus ruficollis is a dark-bodied comb-clawed beetle with a red thorax found in southern Europe and northern Africa.

Family
Genus
Heliotaurus
Order
Coleoptera
Class
Insecta

About Heliotaurus ruficollis (Fabricius, 1781)

Heliotaurus ruficollis (Fabricius, 1781) is a species of comb-clawed beetle that belongs to the family Tenebrionidae. This species is distributed in southern Europe and northern Africa. Adult individuals of this species typically have entirely black bodies paired with a dark red thorax.

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Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Tenebrionidae Heliotaurus

More from Tenebrionidae

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