Nemognatha chrysomeloides

Nemognatha chrysomeloides
Nemognatha chrysomeloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Meloidae
Genus: Nemognatha
Species: N. chrysomeloides
Binomial name
Nemognatha chrysomeloides
(Linnaeus, 1763)

Nemognatha chrysomeloides is a species of oil beetle (Meloidae) from Central and South America.

Ecology

Nemognatha chrysomeloides is a parasite of Melitoma marginella and M. segmentaria from Mexico to Argentina. Both N. chrysomeloides and Melitoma are restricted to the same host plantIpomoeaand so the rate of parasitism may be comparatively high.[1]

Taxonomy

Nemognatha chrysomeloides was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 work Centuria Insectorum, under the name Meloe chrysomeloides. It is a very variable species, and as such, many synonyms have since been published:[2]

  • Cantharis chrysomeloides (Linnaeus, 1763): Thunberg, 1784
  • Lytta chrysomeloides (Linnaeus, 1763): Schoenherr, 1817
  • Nemognathus coeruleipennis Perty, 1830
  • Nemognatha versicolor Chevrolat, 1834
  • Nemognatha abdominalis Lucas in Laporte de Castelnau, 1859
  • Nemognatha bicolor Lucas in Laporte de Castelnau, 1859 (non LeConte, 1853; nec Walker, 1866)
  • Nematognatha lucasi Gemminger, 1870
  • Nemognatha atra Beauregard, 1890 (non Zonitis atrum Schwartz, 1808; nec Gnathium atrum Dugès, 1889)
  • Nemognatha coeruleipennis var. fulviventris Beauregard, 1890
  • Nemognatha pallidicollis Beauregard, 1890
  • Nemognatha violacea Beauregard, 1890
  • Nemognatha beauregardi Pic, 1910 (replacement name for N. atra Beauregard, 1890)
  • Zonitis chrysomeloides (Linnaeus, 1763): Denier, 1935
  • Zonitis beauregardi (Pic, 1910): Blackwelder, 1945
  • Nemognatha chrysomeloides ab. markli Kaszab, 1963

References

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  1. ^ E. G. Linsley, J. W. MacSwain & C. D. Michener (1980). Nesting Biology and Associated of Melitoma (Hymenoptera, Anthophoridae). University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 90. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-09618-5. 
  2. ^ M. García-París, D. Buckley & G. Parra-Olea (2007). "Catálogo taxonómico-geográfico de los coleópteros de la familia Meloidae de México" (PDF). Graellsia 63 (2): 165258. http://graellsia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/graellsia/article/download/92/92. 

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