Species Monophylla terminata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

paddle-shaped antennae beetle - Monophylla terminata - male

Monophylla terminata (Say) - Monophylla terminata - male

Monophylla terminata (Say) - Monophylla terminata - female

Checkered Beetle - Monophylla terminata - female

Small Hairy Black & Red Beetle with Red Collar and Thick, Scalloped Antennae - Monophylla terminata

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 Monophylla

Species terminata (Monophylla terminata)

Explanation of Names

Monophylla terminata (Say 1835)

Size

4-7 mm(1)

Range

e. US to AZ, n. Mex. - Map (2)(3)(4)

Habitat

on vines, shrubs, and trees infested with small cerambycid larvae(1)

See Also

Readily separated from californica and substriaia by the thorax being yellow, with a black discal spot of variable size but never covering entire pronotum, the elytra more coarsely, densely punctate, the lateral margin pale before the middle and the abdomen entirely yellow or red in the male, the apical segment black in the female. The antenna of the male in this species are ten-jointed; in the male of californica and substriata they are eight-jointed. (Wolcott 1910)

Internet References

youtube video showing active movements of the antennae

Works Cited

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

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.

3.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 29 May, 2006 - 8:46am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov, hg
Last updated 9 December, 2019 - 11:37am

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