Species Osmoderma subplanata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

large red-shouldered beetle - Osmoderma subplanata

Beetle found on porch of old house in Eastern North Dakota. - Osmoderma subplanata

Scarabaeidae: Osmoderma eremicola? - Osmoderma subplanata

Beetle from Nebraska - Osmoderma subplanata

Osmodera subplanata - Osmoderma subplanata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Cetoniinae (Fruit and Flower Chafers)

Tribe Osmodermatini

Genus Osmoderma

Species subplanata (Osmoderma subplanata)

Explanation of Names

Osmoderma subplanata Casey 1915

Identification

Howden (1968) separates O. subplanata from O. eremicola as follows, but see REMARKS: Elytra frequently lacking polished luster, finely to moderately punctate. Scutellum usually heavily punctate, median line sometimes smooth or impunctate; West of Mississippi River and in Manitoba and Alberta.

Range

Southern Alberta to northwestern Ontario in Canada and Montana to central Minnesota south to Oklahoma and Arkansas in the U.S. (see Howden 1968).

Habitat

hardwood forests(1)

Remarks

The morphological differences between O. subplanata and O. eremicola are somewhat arbitrary and more taxonomic research is needed to refine these species concepts. Images were sorted into these two species primarily based on the distribution map in Howden (1968).

Print References

Howden, H.F. 1968. A review of the Trichiinae of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 54: 1–77.

Works Cited

1.	The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 11 August, 2008 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Andrew Smith, Arturo Santos
Last updated 17 August, 2021 - 3:46pm

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