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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Nemognathinae » Nemognathini » Pseudozonitis » Pseudozonitis labialis

Species Pseudozonitis labialis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · See Also · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Nemognathinae
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Pseudozonitis
Species labialis (Pseudozonitis labialis)
Explanation of Names
Pseudozonitis labialis Enns 1956
Size
10-15 mm (1)
Identification
from Enns (1956) key:
Eyes separated below by a distance more than half the distance between eyes on frons [on top of the head]
Femora dark at middle, pale at apices and bases
Labrum with a shallow median, glabrous sulcus [groove or furrow]
Pronotum usually with two fuscous maculae [spots], one on either side of median line, often fused (1)
Range
s. TX n. to Corpus Christi - Map (1)(2)
Season
Apr-July (BG data)
See Also
Morphologically closely resembling Ps. longicornis but distinct from that species by the galeae being longer than the labial palpi, subequal in length to the maxillary palpi (1)
Works Cited
1. A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with....
Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 16 October, 2015 - 1:57pm
Last updated 6 August, 2019 - 6:02pm

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