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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Pea and Bean Weevils (Bruchinae) » Bruchini » Acanthoscelidina » Mimosestes » Mimosestes amicus

Species Mimosestes amicus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Mimosestes amicus (Horn) - Mimosestes amicus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Bruchinae (Pea and Bean Weevils)

Tribe Bruchini

Subtribe Acanthoscelidina

Genus Mimosestes

Species amicus (Mimosestes amicus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Mimosestes amicus (Horn)

Orig. Comb: Bruchus amicus Horn 1873

Explanation of Names

amicus = 'friendly'

Size

2.1–3.8 mm

Identification

easily separated from other congeners and nearly all other US bruchids by having the posterior margin of the eye merging smoothly with the side of head(1)

Range

sw. US (CA-TX-KS-NV), FL / to Costa Rica - Map; one of the most abundant and widespread bruchids in the southwest(1)(2)

Food

probably breeds most successfully in Parkinsonia seeds but is abundant in Prosopis seeds as well; rearing records: Leucaena leucocephala; Parkinsonia aculeata, P. florida, P. microphylla, P. texana macra, P. texana texana; Prosopis glandulosa glandulosa, P. glandulosa torreyana, P. velutina, P. pallida, P. pubescens; Sesbania sesban (Hawaii), S. aegyptiaca.(1)

Life Cycle

oviposits on green pods only (its exit holes are used by other bruchine spp. for oviposition)(1)

Print References

Kingsolver J.M., Johnson C.D. (1978) Systematics of the genus Mimosestes (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). USDA Tech. Bull. 1590. 106 pp.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	Handbook of the Bruchidae of the United States and Canada Kingsolver J.M. 2004. USDA Tech. Bull. 1912 (2 vols.).

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 7 February, 2007 - 9:29pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 May, 2019 - 7:33pm

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