subgenus Pauronemognatha

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · Works Cited

Meliodae beetle maybe orange w black spots - Nemognatha cribraria

blister beetle - Nemognatha nemorensis - female

Unknown Beetle sp. - Nemognatha punctulata

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 Nemognathinae

Tribe Nemognathini

Genus Nemognatha

No Taxon subgenus Pauronemognatha

Explanation of Names

Pauronemognatha Enns 1956

Numbers

7 spp.(1)

Size

5-15 mm(1)

Range

most of the US + QC-ON; N. cribraria fuscula & N. nemorensis widespread in the east, N. punctulata se. US; the rest of the taxa are more western(1)

Season

Mar-Oct(1)

Remarks

Species not yet in guide (1):

N. capillaris Enns, 1956 (UT)

N. nebrascensis Enns, 1956 (NE, KS)

Works Cited

1.	A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with.... Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.

Contributed by v belov on 20 December, 2012 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche
Last updated 5 October, 2021 - 1:31pm

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