Species Zonitis atripennis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Works Cited

Beautiful two-tone insect - Zonitis atripennis

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 Zonitis

No Taxon (Subgenus Neozonitis)

Species atripennis (Zonitis atripennis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Zonitis atripennis (Say)

Orig. Comb: Nemognatha atripennis Say 1823

Numbers

3 sspp., all in our area(1)

Size

6-12 mm(1)

Range

w. US (ID-CA to sw.SD-KS-n.TX): Z. a. atripennis is the eastern ssp., Z. a. terminalis. NV & so.CA, Z. a. flavida in between(1)

Season

May-Sep(1)

Food

larval hosts: Nomia (and maybe Anthophora and Melissodes); adults on Cleome flowers(1)

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 Jonathan W. Quist on 13 June, 2013 - 12:53pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 27 September, 2015 - 11:40am

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