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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Lamiinae) » Phytoeciini » Mecas » Mecas femoralis

Species Mecas femoralis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Mecas femoralis
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 Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)
Subfamily Lamiinae (Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe Phytoeciini
Genus Mecas
Species femoralis (Mecas femoralis)
Explanation of Names
Mecas femoralis (Haldeman 1847)
Size
6-8 mm(1)
Identification
small size, rather uniform pubescence, lack of pronotal calluses, and reddish femora(1)
Range
mostly FL - Map, references to this sp. occuring rarely across the se go back to (1)(2)
Season
May-Jul(1)
Food
no larval hosts known (3)
Life Cycle
taken on Aster in the sandhill-scrub oak community of Florida(3)
Remarks
rare in collections(1)(3)
Internet References
Cerambycide Catalog
Works Cited
1.The Cerambycidae of North America, Part VII, No. 2: ... subfamily Lamiinae, tribes Acanthocinini through Hemilophini.
E. Gorton Linsley & John A. Chemsak. 1995. University of California Publications in Entomology 114: 1-292.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States
Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
Contributed by v belov on 16 August, 2018 - 3:22am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 5 May, 2023 - 1:34am

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