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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 » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Long-horned Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Cerambycinae » Tillomorphini » Pentanodes » Pentanodes dietzii

Species Pentanodes dietzii

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Pentanodes dietzii Schaeffer - Pentanodes dietzii - female Pentanodes dietzii Schaeffer - Pentanodes dietzii - male Pentanodes dietzii Schaeffer - Pentanodes dietzii - female
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 Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)
Family Cerambycidae (Long-horned Beetles)
Subfamily Cerambycinae
Tribe Tillomorphini
Genus Pentanodes
Species dietzii (Pentanodes dietzii)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Author of both genus and species: Schaeffer 1904
Explanation of Names
Pentanodes refers to the incrassate and clavate antennomeres 3-7 in male; species named after W.G. Dietz (1848-1932) who collected the type series (Schaeffer 1904)
Numbers
1 sp. n. of Mex. (1) (second sp. in Cuba)
Size
5-6 mm (Downie 1987)
Range
Starr and Cameron counties of southmost TX (Downie 1987), (Hovore et al. 1987) / Tamaulipas, Mexico (Ceram. Cat.)
Season
October (Downie 1987), (BG data)
Remarks
Unique holotype and allotype collected at Brownsville, TX (no further data); no add'l specimens collected for some 80 years (Hovore et al. 1987), until Downie (1987) coll. 25 spmns near La Gloria, Starr Co., TX on whitebrush - Aloysia gratissima (Verbenaceae), which was in full bloom in late Oct.
Print References
Downie, N.M. 1987. An infrequently taken Texan cerambycid beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 41(4): 301. (JSTOR)
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, 20 figs.
Schaeffer, C. 1904. New genera and species of Coleoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 12(4): 197-236. (Full Text)
Internet References
Cerambycidae Catalog
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.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 13 January, 2010 - 9:48pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 21 January, 2016 - 4:41pm

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