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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Hide Beetles (Trogidae) » Hastate Hide Beetles (Omorgus) » Omorgus howelli

Species Omorgus howelli

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Omorgus howelli (Howden and Vaurie) - Omorgus howelli

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Trogidae (Hide Beetles)

Genus Omorgus (Hastate Hide Beetles)

Species howelli (Omorgus howelli)

Other Common Names

Caracara Trox (1), Caracara Hide Beetle, Caracara Commensal Scarab (2)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Omorgus howelli (Howden & Vaurie)

Orig. Comb: Trox howelli Howden & Vaurie 1957

Explanation of Names

patronym for Joseph Howell, who was instrumental finding the type specimen(3)

Size

11.5-12.9 mm (3)

Range

sc US, FL (OK-TX-LA, FL, MO) (4)(BG data)(5)(EGRiley, pers. comm., 2012)

Life Cycle

In Florida, known only from the nest of a Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway)(1); other spmns apparently taken at lights. LA, OK & MO lie beyond the caracara's range.

Remarks

A state threatened species in FL (1 spmn from Osceola Co. known), as is the Crested Caracara (1)(5)

considered by FL to be a "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) (2)

See Also

Closely related to the widespread O. suberosus and to a lesser degree to O. tytus

O. suberosus (Fabricius)

Det. E. G. Riley, 2010

Works Cited

1.	Rare and Endangered Biota of Florida, Volume IV. Invertebrates. Mark Deyrup and Richard Franz (Eds.). 1994. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xxx + 798 pp.

2.	Florida "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN)

3.	Two new species of Trox from Florida (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) Vaurie P., Howden H.F. 1957. American Museum novitates 1818: 1‒6.

4.	An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas. Edward G. Riley & Charles S. Wolfe. 2003. Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement. 37 pp.

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

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 28 March, 2012 - 9:22pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 6 April, 2016 - 3:27pm

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