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Species Heterobrenthus texanus

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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 Curculionoidea
Family Brentidae (Primitive Weevils)
Subfamily Brentinae
Tribe Brentini
Genus Heterobrenthus
Species texanus (Heterobrenthus texanus)
Other Common Names
Brownsville Brentid
Explanation of Names
Heterobrenthus texanus Schaeffer 1915
Numbers
1 sp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
8-10.25 mm (Schaeffer 1915)
Range
Globally known from 4 spmns, 2 from Hidalgo and 2 from Cameron counties in southmost Texas - Map (2),(BG data),(3)
Season
May, ~July (2),(BG data)
Life Cycle
Where known, species of the subfamily Brentinae develop in living, dying or recently felled hardwood trees where larvae bore deep into the heartwood (1)
Remarks
Described by Schaeffer (1915) from two specimens collected by Ottomar Dietz and Herbert Spencer Barber.
Type Locality attributed to "Los Borregos" (a still unlocated place name) near Brownsville, Texas.
A hundred years later two more specimens were collected at Santa Ana NWR in southern Hidalgo Co., Texas.
Texas considers this a SGCN (4)
Print References
Riley, E.G. & J.E. King. 2009. Element record datasheets submitted to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Wildlife Division, Austin. (2)
Schaeffer, C. 1915. New Coleoptera and miscellaneous notes. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 23: 47-55. (Full Text)
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.Element record datasheets, submitted to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Wildlife Division, Austin.
Riley E.G., King J.E. 2009.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Texas "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) - TPWD
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 9 November, 2009 - 2:54am
Last updated 7 December, 2023 - 9:25pm

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