Species Tricorynus texanus

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

Tricorynus texanus White - Tricorynus texanus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Bostrichoidea

Family Ptinidae (Death-watch and Spider Beetles)

Subfamily Mesocoelopodinae

Tribe Tricorynini

Genus Tricorynus

Species texanus (Tricorynus texanus)

Explanation of Names

Tricorynus texanus White 1965

Numbers

106 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Range

FL, s. TX (Cameron, Jim Wells, Hidalgo and Starr counties) / Mex. to Costa Rica - Map (2)(3)

Peck & Thomas (1998) detail an extensive number of Tricorynus spp. from FL, but no T. texanus. (4)

Season

Number of compiled Texas collecting events by month:

January (1), March (4), April (1), May (9), June (4), July (4), August (1), September (1), October (7). (2)

Food

Primary host appears to be Texas ebony beans (Ebenopsis ebano) (2)

Remarks

Texas considers this a "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) (5)

Print References

Riley, E.G. & J.E. King. 2009. Element record datasheets submitted to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Wildlife Division, Austin. (2)

White, R.E. 1965. A revision of the genus Tricorynus of North America (Coleoptera: Anobiidae). Miscellaneous publications of the Entomological Society of America, 4(7): 283-368.

White, R.E. 1982. A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Family: Anobiidae. Fascicle 529-70. USDA-ARS, Washington, DC. (6)

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.	Element record datasheets, submitted to Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, Wildlife Division, Austin. Riley E.G., King J.E. 2009.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

5.	Texas "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) - TPWD

6.	A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. Family: Anobiidae. White, R.E. 1982. USDA-ARS, Washington, DC. xi + 59 pp.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 3 March, 2011 - 8:16am
Last updated 20 December, 2019 - 7:51am

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