Species Pentanodes dietzii

Classification · 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

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)

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) / Tamps, Mex. Map (2),(3),(4)

Season

October (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

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.

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. Calif. Acad. Sci. 44: 283-334.

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 13 January, 2010 - 9:48pm
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Last updated 23 December, 2019 - 4:04pm

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