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Species Isohydnocera schusteri

Isohydnocera schusteri (Leconte) - Isohydnocera schusteri

Isohydnocera schusteri from East Texas - Isohydnocera schusteri

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles)

Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)

Subfamily Hydnocerinae

Genus Isohydnocera

Species schusteri (Isohydnocera schusteri)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Isohydnocera schusteri (Leconte)

Orig. Comb: Hydnocera schusteri Leconte 1866

Explanation of Names

"One specimen, from middle Illinois, kindly given me by Mr. Maurice Schuster, of St. Louis, to whom I dedicate with pleasure this beautiful species." (Leconte 1866)

Numbers

10 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

5-5.5 mm (2)

Range

sc US (TX-LA-IL-OK) - Map (2)(3)(4), rare

Remarks

Described from one spmn in 1866, 81 yrs later this sp. was still only known from ILL. (LeConte 1866, Wolcott 1947)...

Schaeffer (1908) record from Brownsville, TX is in error. (Leavengood pers. comm. to MAQ, 2015)

Print References

LeConte, J.L. 1866. New species of North American Coleoptera. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1 (concluded). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6: 87-168.

Schaeffer, C. 1908. On new and known Coleoptera of the families Coccinellidae and Cleridae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 16(3): 125-135. (full text)

Wolcott, A.B. 1947. Catalogue of North American Beetles of the Family Cleridae. Fieldiana: Zoology, 32(2): 61-105. (3)

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Cleridae in the OSU Coll. (4)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Blatchley, W. S. 1910. Indianapolis,Nature Pub. Co.

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

4.	Checklist of the Coleoptera of Oklahoma

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 18 March, 2015 - 12:49am
Last updated 28 May, 2022 - 8:49pm

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