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Species Pentanodes dietzii

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
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)
Subfamily Cerambycinae
Tribe Tillomorphini
Genus Pentanodes
Species dietzii (Pentanodes dietzii)
Other Common Names
Tamaulipan Beaded Bycid
Explanation of Names
Pentanodes dietzii Schaeffer 1904
Pentanodes refers to the incrassate and clavate antennomeres 3-7 in male; species named after Ottomar Dietz (1854-1901) who collected the type series (Schaeffer 1904)
Numbers
1 sp. n. of Mex. (1) (second sp. in Cuba)
Size
5-6 mm (2)
Range
southmost TX (Starr & Cameron counties) / ne. Mex. (NL & Tamps) - Map (2)(3)(4)(5)
Season
Sept-Oct. (2)(BG data)
Remarks
Unique holotype and allotype collected at Brownsville, TX (no further data); no add'l specimens collected for some 80 years (3), until Downie (1987) coll'ed 25 spmns near La Gloria, Starr Co., TX on whitebrush - Aloysia gratissima (Verbenaceae), which was in full bloom in late Oct. (2)
Print References
Downie, N.M. 1987. An infrequently taken Texan cerambycid beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 41(4): 301. (2)
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. (3)
Schaeffer, C. 1904. New genera and species of Coleoptera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 12(4): 197-236. (Full Text)
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.An infrequently taken Texan cerambycid beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Downie, N.M. 1987. The Coleopterists Bulletin 41(4): 301.
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.iNaturalist
5.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)