Genus Pharaxonotha

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

Pharaxonotha floridanus (Casey) - Pharaxonotha floridana

Pharaxonotha kirschii Reitter - Pharaxonotha kirschii

Beetle IMG_1028 - Pharaxonotha floridana

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea

No Taxon (Erotylid series)

Family Erotylidae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)

Subfamily Xenoscelinae

Genus Pharaxonotha

Explanation of Names

Pharaxonotha Reitter 1875

Numbers

2 spp. in our area(1), 5 in the New World, 12 total(2)

Range

P. floridana - endemic to FL (3)

P. kirschii - TX to C. Amer. (1), possible elsewhere as a stored product pest.

Food

P. floridana - mostly cycad (Cycadales) pollen(2)

P. kirschii - reported from cotton bolls, corn meal, edible tubers, stored maize, wheat, and beans (Hinton 1944)(4)

Remarks

One of the most primitive groups in the family and the most important known pollinators of cycads(2)

comes to lights (BG data)

Print References

Hinton, H.E. 1945. A monograph of the beetles associated with stored products. British Museum (Natural History), London. 443 pp.

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.	A new species of Pharaxonotha (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), probable pollinator of the endangered Cuban cycad, Microcycas calocoma Chaves R., Genaro J.A. 2005. Insecta Mundi 19: 143-150.

3.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

4.	Review of the New World species of Pharaxonotha Reitter (Coleoptera: Languriidae). Pakaluk, J. 1988. Revista de Biología Tropical 36: 447-451.

Contributed by v belov on 28 January, 2010 - 10:04am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 8 May, 2016 - 10:53am

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