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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Nemognathinae » Nemognathini » Nemognatha » subgenus Meganemognatha (Nemognatha subgenus Meganemognatha) » Nemognatha lutea

Species Nemognatha lutea

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Utah Nemognatha - Nemognatha lutea Nemognatha lutea? - Nemognatha lutea Brown Beetle - Nemognatha lutea Unknown Beetle - Nemognatha lutea Nemognatha lutea Nemognatha on Cirsium undulatum - Nemognatha lutea Nemognatha on Cirsium undulatum - Nemognatha lutea Nemognatha on Cirsium undulatum - Nemognatha lutea
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
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Nemognatha
No Taxon (subgenus Meganemognatha)
Species lutea (Nemognatha lutea)
Explanation of Names
Nemognatha lutea LeConte 1853
Numbers
3 sspp.(1)
Size
7.5-15 mm(1)
Range
w. NA - Map (2)
N. l. lutea ND-TX to AB-NV-AZ & Mexico
N. l. dichroa BC-CA to MB-CO
N. l. dubia WA-CA (1)(3)
Season
Mar-Oct(1)
Life Cycle
adults on potato, alfalfa, Heliantus (4), and Cirsium (BG data)
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1853. Synopsis of the Meloides of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 328–350.
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1. A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with....
Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
3.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
4.The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas
Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.
Contributed by tom murray on 8 August, 2005 - 9:15pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 20 April, 2024 - 2:54pm

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