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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles (Cucujoidea) » Erotylid series » Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Erotylidae) » Pleasing Fungus Beetles (Erotylinae) » Lizard Beetles (Languriini) » Languria » Clover Stem Borer (Languria mozardi)

Species Languria mozardi - Clover Stem Borer

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

Flotsam lizard beetle - Languria mozardi

Lizard beetle 10.06.04 - Languria mozardi

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea (Sap, Bark and Fungus Beetles)

No Taxon (Erotylid series)

Family Erotylidae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)

Subfamily Erotylinae (Pleasing Fungus Beetles)

Tribe Languriini (Lizard Beetles)

Genus Languria

Species mozardi (Clover Stem Borer)

Explanation of Names

Languria mozardi Latreille 1807

Size

4-9 mm(1) (mostly 5-7 mm)

Identification

Antennal club emerging gradually from stem, seventh segment (base of club) less than twice as wide as preceding segments, segments only slightly dilated to inner side; head red; thorax spotless; abdomen with last three (sometimes last two, rarely just one) ventrites piceous(1)

Range

e. NA to AZ (QC-MB to FL-AZ) / n. Mex. - Map (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)

Season

Feb-Nov(1), but mostly Mar-July (5)

Food

polyphagous, but mostly hosts on Asteraceae(1), infests red clover in the southeast and alfalfa in the southwest(1), and, potentially, canola (Ward et al. 2007.)

Life Cycle

larvae and pupae in stems of dozens of plants spp. in at least 6 families(1)

Remarks

most common and widespread of our languriines(1)

See Also

told from discoidea by the lack of the median dark spot on the thorax, by the shining, not alutaceous, thorax and elytra, and generally smaller size;

from denticulata by the smooth, not sinuate, elytral apices and by the presence of more than one piceous abdominal segment;

from californica by the lack of all piceous abdomen and by the shallower punctuation on the under surface, especially on the metasternum;

from laeta by the gradual, not abrupt, emergence of the antennal club from the stem, by the lack of all piceous abdomen, and by smaller size.(1)

Print References

Girault, A.A. 1907. Oviposition of Languria mozardi Latreille. Entomol. News, 18: 366-367.

Ward, R.N., E. Cebert, and K.E. Ward. 2007. Occurrence of clover stem borer, Languria mozardi (Coleoptera: Languriidae), on canola: A new host record. Florida Entomologist, 90(4): 732-737. (Full Text)

Webster, F.M. 1888. The larva of the clover stem borer, Languria Mozardi Latreille, as a gall maker. Insect Life, 1: 119-120.

Weed, C.M. 1890. On the life-history of the clover stem borer (Languria mozardi). Bull. Ohio Agr. Exp. Sta., ser. 2, 3: 235-238.

Works Cited

1.	A review of the North American Languriidae Vaurie P. 1948. Bull. AMNH 92: 119-156.

2.	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.

3.	An Illustrated Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.

4.	List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 29 March, 2004 - 9:47pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 12 February, 2022 - 10:31pm

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