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Species Adetus brousii

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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 Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)
Subfamily Lamiinae (Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe Apomecynini
Genus Adetus
Species brousii (Adetus brousii)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Adetus brousii (Horn)
Orig. Comb: Sicyobius brousii Horn 1880
Cerambycidae Catalog and Lingafelter (2008) use brousi, GBIF uses brousii, iNat uses both spellings
Explanation of Names
Patronym for Dr. Harry A. Brous (?1850-1906), an entomologist interested in beetles. Brous was native to Manhattan, KS, but also briefly collected in Helotes, Bexar Co., TX.
Numbers
2 described spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
7 mm (2)
Range
KS to e. NM / n. Mex. - Map (3)(4) - Type Locality: KS
Uncommon (2)
Season
May-July (3)
Food
Larvae breed in stems of wild gourd (Cucurbita) and possibly other Cucurbitaceae, (2)
Remarks
Attracted to lights (3)
Print References
Horn, G.H. 1880. Notes on some genera of Cerambycidae with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 8: 115-138. (Full Text)
Hovore, F.T., R.L. Penrose & R.W. Neck. 1987. The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a faunal survey (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 44(13): 283-334. (3)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States
Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
3.The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a faunal survey (Coleoptera)
Hovore F.T., Penrose R.L., Neck R.W. 1987. Proc. CAS 44: 283‒334.
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)