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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Elateriformia » Elateroidea » False Click Beetles (Eucnemidae) » Eucneminae » Mesogenini » Vitellius » Vitellius texanus

Species Vitellius texanus

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)
Superfamily Elateroidea
Family Eucnemidae (False Click Beetles)
Subfamily Eucneminae
Tribe Mesogenini
Genus Vitellius
Species texanus (Vitellius texanus)
Other Common Names
The Bentsen Eucnemid
Explanation of Names
Vitellius texanus Knull 1957
Numbers
Only sp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
Length 4.6 mm.; width 1.7 mm. (Knull 1957)
Identification
See Knull (1957)
Range
southmost TX (Hidalgo and Cameron Co.) to Mexico - Map (E.G. Riley pers. comm., to MAQ 2010),(2)
Season
March (Knull 1957),(BG data)
Remarks
Type Locality: Bentsen-RGV State Park (Knull 1957)
Holotype in collection of author, collected March 26, 1954, in Bentsen, Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo Co., Tex., by D. J. and J. N. Knull.
See Also
This species differs from V. gautardi Bonv. (p. 790) by having third antennal segment about equal to second and from V. lafertei Bonv. (p. 789) by having pronotum wider than long. (Knull 1957)
Print References
Bonvouloir, H. de. 1870-1875. Monographie de la famille des Eucnemidae. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 4, 10: 1-907, 42 pls.
Knull, J. 1957. A New Species of Vitellius From The United States (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae). The Ohio Journal of Science 57(1): 9-10. (Full PDF)
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.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 18 August, 2010 - 7:56pm
Last updated 28 March, 2019 - 9:18am

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