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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » False Blister Beetles (Oedemeridae) » Oedemerinae » Asclerini » Oxacis

Genus Oxacis

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

Oxacis trirossi Arnett - Oxacis trirossi

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 Oedemeridae (False Blister Beetles)

Subfamily Oedemerinae

Tribe Asclerini

Genus Oxacis

Explanation of Names

Oxacis LeConte 1866

Numbers

~30 spp. in our area(1)

Identification

The key in Arnett (1960) is based on color characters that must be used with great caution; details of shape and proportions help to define the species, but cannot be used in a key(2)

Range

primarily neotropical(3); in our area, throughout the US, but by far more diverse in the south (O. cana is recorded from MN and O. trirossi from SD(4))

Habitat

adults come to light

Season

adults Mar‒Jul

Food

various species have been recorded on oleander, coconut palm, willow, cottonwood, and citrus trees(5)

Print References

Arnett R.H. (1958) Speciation and distribution in the genus Oxacis (Coleoptera). Proc. 10th Int. Cong. Ent. 1: 805‒811.

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.	Contribution towards a monograph of the Oedemeridae 13. The "Fragilis" complex of the genus Oxacis Arnett R.H., Jr. 1960. Col. Bull. 14: 33-44.

3.	A revision of the Nearctic Oedemeridae (Coleoptera) Arnett R.H., Jr. 1951. American Midland Naturalist 45: 257‒391.

4.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.

5.	Arnett R.H., Jr. (2000-2005) False blister beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Oedemeridae)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 13 April, 2006 - 10:26am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 23 June, 2024 - 2:28pm

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