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Species Gnathium minimum

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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 Tenebrionoidea
Family Meloidae (Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Nemognathinae
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Gnathium
Species minimum (Gnathium minimum)
Other Common Names
Brown-bordered Sunflower Blister Beetle
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gnathium minimum (Say)
Orig. Comb: Nemognatha minima Say 1824
Size
3.5-6.0 mm(1)
Identification
elytra broadly infuscated [brown tinged] on sides and narrowly along suture (2)

Det. John Pinto, 2009
Range
Most of w. US (CA-LA-WI-AB); FL; Mex. (Baja & Veracruz) - Map (3); mostly: AZ-TX-MT, one of the most widespread Nearctic meloids, several disjunct populations(1)
Habitat
sandy areas(1)
Season
mostly: Apr-Oct (3)
Food
Adults usually on sunflowers (Helianthus), also on Cowpen Daisy (Verbesina encelioides) (2)
larvae found in nest of Fairy Bees (Perdita, Andrenidae)(1)
Remarks
Type Locality: Arkansas
Works Cited
1.A taxonomic review of the genus Gnathium Kirby (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
Pinto J.D. 2009. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 135: 1-58.
2.The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Texas
Dillon, Lawrence S. 1952. American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 48, No. 2:330-420.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)