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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Antlike Flower Beetles (Anthicidae) » Macratriinae » Salimuzzamania » Salimuzzamania howdeni

Species Salimuzzamania howdeni

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Thambospasta howdeni Werner - Salimuzzamania howdeni
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 Anthicidae (Antlike Flower Beetles)
Subfamily Macratriinae
Genus Salimuzzamania
Species howdeni (Salimuzzamania howdeni)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Salimuzzamania howdeni (Werner)
Orig. Comb: Thambospasta howdeni Werner 1974 (1)
Explanation of Names
Patronym for Henry Howden
Size
3.6-4.6 mm (Werner 1974)
Range
Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co., TX (Werner 1974)
Season
Apr-May (Werner 1974)(2)
Remarks
Holotype male, allotype female and 11 male paratypes, Big Bend N[ational] P[ark], TEX[AS], 1850', Boquillas, May 23, 1959, light; Howden & Becker; 3 male paratypes same but May 13.
Texas considers this a SGCN (3)
Print References
Telnov, D. (2021). The easternmost record of Macratriinae LeConte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Anthicidae), with a new species from Fiji and a genus-rank synonymy in Macratriini LeConte, 1862. Zootaxa, 4965(1), 191–200. (1)
Werner F.G. (1974) A new genus of primitive Meloidae from west Texas (Coleoptera). Psyche 81(1): 147-154 (Full text)
Works Cited
1.The easternmost record of Macratriinae (Coleoptera: Anthicidae), with a genus-rank synonymy in Macratriini LeConte, 1862
Telnov, D. 2021. Zootaxa, 4965(1): 191–200.
2.Texas A&M University Insect Collection (TAMUIC)
3.Texas "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) - TPWD
Contributed by v belov on 18 March, 2011 - 5:53pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 8 October, 2021 - 4:31pm

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