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Jimeno Álvarez

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tinacates is incorrectly written, and should be written as "pinacates" as meaning: tinacates = pinacateEleodes pinacatesplural is a genus of beetles, belonging to the family Tenebrionidae, commonly known as pinacates. Species of this genus are distributed in the North of Mexico, the southwest of the United States, to the southwest of Canada. They represent the most abundant set of the tenebrionidae in North America, with more than 200 known species. The pinacate term comes from the nahuatl pinacatl, which means black beetle. The desert of the Pinacate in Sonora, Mexico, receives its name due to the presence of this type of species in the region.

  



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