Genus Wolcottia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Print References · Works Cited

Wolcottia pedalis (LeConte) - Wolcottia pedalis

Cleridae - Wolcottia pedalis - Checkered beetle? - Wolcottia pedalis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cleroidea

Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)

Subfamily Hydnocerinae

Genus Wolcottia

Explanation of Names

Wolcottia Chapin, 1917

Patronym for Albert Burke Wolcott (1869-1950), an American coleopterist who published extensively on Cleridae.

Numbers

2 spp.(1)

Identification

distinguishable from Phyllobaenus by the lack of a well-developed tarsal denticle, and from Isohydnocera by the nearly equilateral 3rd antennomere(1)

Range

e US to AZ(1)

Habitat

collected by sweeping grass/weeds or by beating oak(1)

Print References

Dybas, H.S. 1951. Albert Burke Wolcott: 1869-1950. 5(3): 33-38. JSTOR

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 v belov on 8 April, 2010 - 4:17pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Chris Grinter
Last updated 16 October, 2022 - 3:44pm

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