Project Description
North America
Ironclad beetles have some of the hardest exoskeletons of any insect. Entomologists cannot pin them using standard insect pins because they just bend and snap when faced with these tough beetles.
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Family: Tenebrionidae (Darkling Beetles)
- Species: Phloeodes diabolicus
