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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » Glowworm Beetles (Phengodidae) » Mastinocerini » Cenophengus

Genus Cenophengus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Cenophengus longicollis - male Cenophengus longicollis - male Phengodid? - Cenophengus - male Staphylinidae? - Cenophengus Cenophengus from west central TX - Cenophengus longicollis Cenophengus pallidus far south TX - Cenophengus pallidus Cenophengus debilis Elateroidea - Cenophengus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Phengodidae (Glowworm Beetles)
Tribe Mastinocerini
Genus Cenophengus
Explanation of Names
Cenophengus LeConte 1861
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 30 total(1)(2)
Identification
Pronotum as wide as long or distinctly longer than wide; pronotum distinctly longer than wide, rectangular; vertex and pronotum coarsely punctate (1).
Range
sw. US (CA-TX) to S. America; most spp. in Mexico(1)
Remarks
C. ciceroi Wittmer 1981 - s AZ (2)
C. debilis LeConte 1881 - s CA
C. longicollis Wittmer 1976 - se NM, sw TX / Mex
C. pallidus Schaeffer 1904 - c to s TX
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Revision of the genus Cenophengus LeConte, 1881 (Coleoptera, Phengodidae), with the description of four new species, new ...
Viridiana Vega-Badillo, Juan J. Morrone, Santiago Zaragoza-Caballero. 2021. ZooKeys 1068: 43-148.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 8 October, 2009 - 3:52pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 18 March, 2022 - 11:41am

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