Species Ababa tantilla

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Ababa tantilla (LeConte) - Ababa tantilla

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cleroidea

Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)

Subfamily Isoclerinae

Genus Ababa

Species tantilla (Ababa tantilla)

Explanation of Names

Ababa tantilla (LeConte 1865)

Size

1.8-2.6 mm(1)

Identification

densely, finely punctured head, small eyes, a pronotum that is more densely punctured than the head, and elytra that are densely punctured with the basal punctures larger than those of the pronotum and becoming smaller apically. Its body is entirely dull brown to dark brown. (2)

Range

e. US (MA-FL to MO-TX) & Mexico - Map (3)(4)(2)(5)

Life Cycle

reared from touchwood (Polyporaceae: Fomes igniarius) in Texas (Knull, 1951)

reared from the shelf fungus Phellinus sp. (Polyporaceae) inhabited by Ciidae (2)

reared in TX from old bracket fungi(6)

Print References

Knull, J.N. 1951. The checkered beetles of Ohio (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin 8(42): 268-350.

Works Cited

1.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.

2.	The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida. Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.

3.	Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.

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

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

6.	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.

Contributed by v belov on 17 March, 2011 - 3:50pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 29 December, 2020 - 4:42pm

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