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Genus Brassicogethes

Tiny Flower Beetle - Brassicogethes simplipes

Brassicogethes aeneus (Fabricius) - Brassicogethes aeneus

Please confirm ? Urophorus Humeralis - Brassicogethes aeneus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Cucujoidea

No Taxon (Nitidulid series)

Family Nitidulidae (Sap-feeding Beetles)

Subfamily Meligethinae (Pollen Beetles)

Genus Brassicogethes

Explanation of Names

Brassicogethes Audisio & Cline 2009

Numbers

4 spp. (incl. one adventive) in our area, (~40 spp. total) (1)

Size

1.4–3.3 mm (1)

Identification

updated key to spp. in Hoebeke and Wheeler (1996) (2)

Range

Holarctic and Oriental;

in N. Amer.: south to so. CA and nw Mexico, and east to the Appalachian Mts;

B. aeneus is holarctic,

B. cleominis w. N. Amer.,

B. simplipes e. N. Amer.,

B. viridescens introduced (Eurasia to e. Canada) (1)

Food

larve develop in flowers of Brassicaceae, esp. the subfamilies Arabideae, Brassiceae, and Hesperideae (1)

Works Cited

1.	Preliminary re-examination of genus-level taxonomy of the pollen beetle subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Audisio P., Cline A.R., De Biase A., et al. 2009. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49: 341–504.

2.	Meligethes viridescens (F.) (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in Maine, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island... Hoebeke E.R., Wheeler A.G. 1996. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 98: 221-227.

Contributed by Stephen_WV on 4 April, 2006 - 4:11pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 September, 2013 - 1:53pm

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