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Species Nemognatha nemorensis

small red/black blister beetle - Nemognatha nemorensis

Blister Beetles Nemognatha nemorensis - Nemognatha nemorensis

Nemognatha nemorensis Hentz - Nemognatha nemorensis

Soldier Beetle on Pipewort - Nemognatha nemorensis

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 Nemognatha

No Taxon (subgenus Pauronemognatha)

Species nemorensis (Nemognatha nemorensis)

Explanation of Names

Nemognatha nemorensis Hentz 1830

nemorensis - Latin for 'of woodland' (1)

Size

5-9 mm(2)

Range

e NA (QC-FL to ON-MN-e.NE-e.TX) - Map (2)(3)(4), GBIF records concentrated in ne NA, Great Plains, and Florida

Habitat

adults on flowers near wooded habitats(5)

Season

Apr-Sep (2)

Food

adults feed on flowerparts of Asteraceae (Rudbeckia, Bidens, Erigeron, Heterotheca, Eupatorium spp.) (2)[Cite:185010]

larvae feed on eggs, larvae, and food reserves of ground-nesting bees

See Also

related to N. nigripennis but is readily distinguishable by its transversely oval pronotum, totally black or fuscous abdominal sterna, and eastern distribution. In addition the males usually have a median tuft of hair in the punctulate depression on the third, fourth, and fifth abdominal sterna while in nigripennis these usually occur only on the fourth and fifth abdominal sterna. The females have longer erect hairs on the fore tarsi than do the females of N. nigripennis. (2)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with.... Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.

3.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	Beetles of Eastern North America Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton University Press.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 15 January, 2006 - 7:24pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 April, 2023 - 10:14am

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