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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Nemognathinae » Cissites » Cissites auriculata

Species Cissites auriculata

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Cissites auriculata (Champion) - Cissites auriculata

Large Beetle Unknown.. - Cissites auriculata - male

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

Species auriculata (Cissites auriculata)

Other Common Names

Big-eared Blister Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Cissites auriculata (Champion)

Orig. Comb: Horia auriculata Champion 1892

Explanation of Names

auriculata = 'eared' (refers to the protruding temples)

Size

19-37 mm (Champion 1892)

Identification

Range

w. & s. TX to Panama / W. Indies - Map (1)(GBIF & BG data)

Season

Jan. to Jun. in TX (BG data)

Food

larval hosts: large carpenter bees (Xylocopa, Apidae) (2)

adults are aphagous (2) (lack the ability to feed)

Remarks

First U.S. Record

TEXAS: Brewster Co.

Big Bend Nat'l Park,

2 mi. E. Pummel Peak

1090 m, 19-V-22-VII-1988

Coll'ed by Peter Scott

Print References

Bianchi, F.A. 1962. Notes on the biology of Cissites auriculata (Champion) (Coleoptera: Meloidae). Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 18: 111-119.

Champion, G.C. 1892. Insecta. Coleoptera. Heteromera (part). Pp. 372, Tab 17, Fig. 9 In: F.D. Godman & O. Salvin (editors). Biologia Centrali-Americana. Taylor & Francis, London. 4(2): x + 494 pp.

Enns, W.R. 1958. Distribution records of two American species of Cissites (Coleoptera-Meloidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 12: 61-64. (JSTOR)

Internet References

Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn 2011

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Cissites spp. - Meloidae.com

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.

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 20 February, 2009 - 10:39am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 14 December, 2020 - 10:27am

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