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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Tenebrionoidea » Blister Beetles (Meloidae) » Nemognathinae » Nemognathini » Nemognatha » subgenus Meganemognatha (Nemognatha subgenus Meganemognatha)

subgenus Meganemognatha

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Orange Beetle on Texas Thistle - Nemognatha Brown Beetle - Nemognatha lutea Unknown Beetle - Nemognatha lutea red flower beetle - Nemognatha Nemognatha lutea lutea LeConte - Nemognatha lutea - male 2119 Orangy beetles on thistle - Nemognatha nitidula Nemognatha on Cirsium undulatum - Nemognatha lutea Nemognatha on Cirsium undulatum - Nemognatha lutea
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 Meloidae (Blister Beetles)
Subfamily Nemognathinae
Tribe Nemognathini
Genus Nemognatha
No Taxon subgenus Meganemognatha
Explanation of Names
Meganemognatha Enns 1956
Numbers
15 spp. in our area(1)
Range
w. NA (plus one sp. in MS-LA), mostly sw. US; N. lurida lurida & N. lutea lutea range as far east as MB, ND & IA(1)(2)
Remarks
Species not yet in guide(1):
N. angusta Enns 1956 (MS‒LA)
N. brevirostris Enns 1956 (TX)
N. bridwelli Wellman 1912 (CA)
N. curta Enns 1956 (CA)
N. explanata Enns 1956 (TX)
N. hurdi MacSwain 1952 (CA)
N. meropa Enns 1956 (AZ)
N. miranda Enns 1956 (AZ‒CA)
N. pallens LeConte 1853 (CA)
N. werneri Enns 1956 (NM)
Works Cited
1. A revision of the genera Nemognatha, Zonitis, and Pseudozonitis (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in America north of Mexico, with....
Enns, W.R. 1956. University of Kansas Scientific Bulletin 37(17): 685-909.
2.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.
Contributed by v belov on 20 December, 2012 - 1:17pm
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche
Last updated 31 May, 2024 - 7:13pm

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