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Genus Dinapate

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Bostrichoidea
Family Bostrichidae (Horned Powder-post Beetles)
Subfamily Bostrichinae
Genus Dinapate
Explanation of Names
Dinapate Horn 1886
Numbers
A single species in our area, 2 spp. total(1)
Size
At 60 mm and more, the largest members of the family(1)
Range
One sp. in CA (introduced in UT-NV-AZ), another in Mexico(1)
Food
Larvae bore into and feed on the tissues within the trunks of the California Fan Palm (Washingtonia filifera).
Remarks
The sole member of the tribe Dinapatini Lesne 1910(2)
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.World catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera)
Borowski J., Węgrzynowicz P. 2007. Mantis, Olsztyn, 247 pp.