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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Fruit and Flower Chafers (Cetoniinae) » Cetoniini » Euphoria » areata group (Euphoria areata group) » Euphoria pilipennis

Species Euphoria pilipennis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Euphoria pilipennis perhaps - Euphoria pilipennis

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 Cetoniini

Genus Euphoria

No Taxon (areata group)

Species pilipennis (Euphoria pilipennis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Euphoria pilipennis (Kraatz)

Orig. Comb: Stephanucha pilipennis Kraatz, 1883

Size

9-12 mm (1)

Identification

Orange markings vary considerably (2)

Range

Great Plains, primarily: NE-KS, full range: NM-TX-IN-ND - Map (1)(3)

Habitat

Generally from sandy areas (2)

Season

mostly: Apr-Sept (1)

Life Cycle

100s of spmn coll'ed by shaking the roots of composites from sandhills blowouts (2)

Skelley (1991) located larvae of S. thoracica in the mounds of the pocket gopher, Geomys, in Florida.

Print References

Knaus, W. 1898. Collecting Notes on Kansas Coleoptera. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science 16: 197-199. (JSTOR)

Paulsen, M.J. 2002. Notes on possible myrmecophily in Stephanucha pilipennis Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 56(3): 451-452. (PDF)

Skelley, P.E. 1991. Observations on the biology of Stephanucha thoracica Casey (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 45: 176-188. (" class="bb_url">JSTOR)

Works Cited

1.	Monographic revision of the American genus Euphoria Burmeister, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) Jesus Orozco. 2012. The Coleopterists Society.

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

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 4 September, 2008 - 8:04am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 16 October, 2019 - 2:29pm

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