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Species Trichodes bicinctus

Trichodes bicinctus Green - Trichodes bicinctus

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 Cleroidea (Bark-gnawing, Checkered and Soft-winged Flower Beetles)

Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)

Subfamily Clerinae

Genus Trichodes

Species bicinctus (Trichodes bicinctus)

Explanation of Names

Trichodes bicinctus Green 1917

bicinctus (L). 'twice girdled' (1)

Size

11-12 mm (Green 1917)

Range

endemic to w. TX - Map (2)(3)(4)

Life Cycle

larvae host on Anthophora (Heliophila) (=Microanthophora) (Apidae) (5)

Remarks

Type Locality: 20 mi. s. of Marfa, Brewster Co., Texas (Green 1917)

See Also

Resembles simulator, apivorus and bibaltcatus in style of maculation.

Readily distinguished from the last by the apical elytral spot, and from the first two by the pale antennal club.

Differs from all in the bicolored legs. The femora are more or less pale beneath at base, the anterior and median tibiae slightly paler at apex in the males, almost entirely reddish in the female. (Green 1917)

Print References

Green, J.W. 1917. A new Trichodes (Cleridae, Coleop.). Entomological News, 28: 367. (Full Text)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	Catalogue of North American beetles of the family Cleridae Wolcott A.B. 1947. Fieldiana: Zoology 32: 63–105.

3.	Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	Revision of North American Trichodes (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Foster, D.E. 1976. Texas Tech University Special Publications No. 11. 86 p.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 19 August, 2009 - 9:07am
Last updated 5 December, 2019 - 11:57pm

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