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Genus Cissites

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Tenebrionoidea
Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Nemognathinae
Genus Cissites
Explanation of Names
Cissites Latreille 1804
Numbers
a single species in our area, 2 spp. total(1)(2)
Range
s. & w. TX to n. Argentina(1)(2)
Food
larval hosts: Xylocopa (Apidae)
adults are aphagous (2)
Remarks
the only New World representative of the tribe Horiini Latreille 1802, that contains 2 more genera (with ~20 spp.) in the Old World tropics (2)(3)
Print References
Enns, W.R. 1958. Distribution records of two American species of Cissites (Coleoptera-Meloidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 12: 61-64. (JSTOR)
Works Cited
1.A United States record for the genus Cissites Latreille (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Zonitini)
Lewis A.E. 2004. The Coleopterists Bulletin 58: 635-636.
2.The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis
Pinto J.D., Bologna M.A. 1999. J. Nat. Hist. 33: 569‒620.
3.BioLib.cz
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 20 February, 2009 - 10:39am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 14 December, 2020 - 10:19am

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