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Species Muscidora tumacacorii - Deltaspis tumacacorii

Muscidora tumacacorii (Knull) - Muscidora tumacacorii - male Mating, Deltaspis tumacacorii? - Muscidora tumacacorii - male - female Mating, Deltaspis tumacacorii? - Muscidora tumacacorii - male - female Mating, Deltaspis tumacacorii? - Muscidora tumacacorii - male - female Mating, Deltaspis tumacacorii? - Muscidora tumacacorii - male - female Female, Deltaspis tumacacorii? - Muscidora tumacacorii - female Female, Deltaspis tumacacorii? - Muscidora tumacacorii - female Male, Deltaspis tumacacorii? - Muscidora tumacacorii - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)
Subfamily Cerambycinae
Tribe Trachyderini
Subtribe Trachyderina
Genus Muscidora
Species tumacacorii (Deltaspis tumacacorii)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Orig. Comb: Oxoplus tumacacorii Knull, 1944
Syn: Deltaspis tumacacorii (Knull)
Explanation of Names
Muscidora tumacacorii (Knull)
Size
Length 15.5 mm (1)
Identification
male and female

Det. S. Lingafelter, 2021
Range
AZ / Mexico (Sonora)(2)
Season
Aug-Sept (1)
Remarks
Holotype male in copulation with allotype and one male paratype taken in Tumacacori Mts., [Santa Cruz Co.], Ariz., August 24, 1940, by D. J. & J. N. Knull.
One female paratype from Santa Rita Mts., Pima Co., Ariz., September 9, 1925, collected by C. T. Vorhies. (1)
See Also
separated from Neoxoplus cruentus (LeConte, 1862) (=Oxoplus cruentus), its nearest ally, by its small form, more convex pronotum with more obtuse spine and markings of elytra. (1)
Neoxoplus cruentus - Range Calif. to Baja
Print References
Eya, B.K. (2019) Revision of the genus Deltaspis Audinet-Serville, 1834 with systematic analysis and new taxa of Trachyderini with emarginate-truncate mandibles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Zootaxa, 4713: 1-62. (3)
Knull J.N. 1944. New Coleoptera with notes (Buprestidae and Cerambycidae). Ohio Journal of Science 44: 90-93. (1)
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