Genus Phodaga

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Meloid beetle, Phodaga alticeps - Phodaga alticeps

Beetle in Colorado Desert - Phodaga alticeps

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 Meloinae

Tribe Eupomphini

Genus Phodaga

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Negalius Casey 1891

Explanation of Names

Phodaga LeConte 1858

Numbers

2 spp. in the genus, both in our area(1)

Size

6-25 mm(2)

Identification

Ph. marmorata: Elytra obsolescently reticulate with variegated cinereous pubescence at floor of reticula; occiput evenly convex; pro- and mesotibia of male not enlarged; antennae not sexually dimorphic; body broadly tumid posteriorly, elytra only moderately declivent laterally, widening posterad

Ph. alticeps: Elytra relatively smooth, subglabrous; occiput distinctly acuminate; mesotibia of male inflated, with a deep ventral furrow; antennae sexually dimorphic, segments III-V of male wider and subglabrous anteriorly; body linear, elytra distinctly declivent laterally, not widening posterad(2)

Range

sw. US to n. Mexico(1)(2)

Print References

(3)

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 taxonomic review of Cysteodemus, Phodaga, and Pleuropasta with a new generic synonymy Pinto J.D. 1984. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 86: 127-143.

3.	Field Guide to Beetles of California Arthur V. Evans and James N. Hogue. 2006. University of California Press.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 6 January, 2006 - 5:41pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 27 February, 2013 - 7:12pm

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