Nemognatha chrysomeloides

Nemognatha chrysomeloides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Meloidae
Genus: Nemognatha
Species:
N. chrysomeloides
Binomial name
Nemognatha chrysomeloides

Nemognatha chrysomeloides is a species of oil beetle (Meloidae) endemic to 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 plant – Ipomoea – and 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

  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): 165–258. doi:10.3989/graellsia.2007.v63.i2.92. hdl:10261/23551.