Species Cymatodera wolcotti

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

I believe this is a beetle. Found on a leaf of pacasandra in a bed of pacasandra. - Cymatodera wolcotti

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 Tillinae

Genus Cymatodera

Species wolcotti (Cymatodera wolcotti)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

confusa Wolcott 1921 nec Spinola

probably synonymous with C. undulata ("I doubt C. wolcotti ... will survive a revision of the genus" --John Leavengood, 8.ix.2011)

Explanation of Names

Cymatodera wolcotti Barr 1950

named after A.B. Wolcott

Size

9-14 mm(1)

Range

se US (VA-FL to MO-TX)(2)

Habitat

Adults taken from Prunus persica (Rosaceae), Quercus nigra (Fagaceae), reared from fusiform rust canker on Pinus elliottii (Pinaceae), and pupae have been collected from its cones(1)

Season

In FL, adults collected during all months except for June(1)

Remarks

collected at UV lights/traps, Malaise traps, a wooden block nest intercept trap, Lindgren funnel traps baited with alpha-beta pinene and ethanol (separately) and turpentine and frontalin (together)(1)

Print References

Barr, W.F. (1950) Systematic and synonymical notes on New World clerid beetles (Coleoptera). Entomologische Berichten, 13: 61-62.

Works Cited

1.	The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of Florida. Leavengood, Jr., J.M. 2008. University of Florida, Gainesville. 206 pp.

2.	A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera... Burke A.F., Leavengood J.M., Zolnerowich G. 2015. Zootaxa 4059: 1‒39.

Contributed by v belov on 15 November, 2010 - 12:29pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 13 May, 2024 - 11:16pm

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