Species Fossocarus creoleorum

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Range · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited

Fossocarus creoleorum Howden - Fossocarus creoleorum - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Melolonthinae (May Beetles and Junebugs)

Tribe Rhizotrogini

Genus Fossocarus

Species creoleorum (Fossocarus creoleorum)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Author: Howden 1961

Numbers

Monotypic genus (1)

Range

Provisional east Texas endemic. This species is likely to occur in southwestern Louisiana. (2)

The type locality is Weirgate (Newton county) (Howden, 196l), and it was later recorded from Hardin County (Howden, 1971).

We collected or examined male specimens from Hardin, Jasper and Tyler countries taken mostly at lights. (Riley and Wolfe 2003)

Life Cycle

As predicted by Howden (1961) this species is active during the cool-season although not exclusively. Our specimens (all males) were taken in October, March and as late as April and May. It also flies during rainy weather and even during driving rainstorms, and it may fly exclusively under these conditions. (Riley and Wolfe 2003) (2)

Print References

Howden, H.F. 1961. New species and a new genus of Melolonthinae from the southeastem United States (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). The Canadian Entomologist 93: 807-812.

Howden, H.F. 1971. Five unusual genera of New World Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera). The Canadian Entomologist 103: 1463-1471.

Riley, E.G. and C.S. Wolfe. 2003. An Annotated Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas (Coleoptera). Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement no. 26: 1-37. (2)

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.	An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas. Edward G. Riley & Charles S. Wolfe. 2003. Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement. 37 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 17 March, 2011 - 6:03pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 20 March, 2011 - 9:39am

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