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Dyscinetus morator

  • 1. 33493 " S " Avenue Adel, Iowa 50003
  • 2. 168 Thompson Drive SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403
  • 3. Biology Department, University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677

Description

Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius, 1798)

Wickham 1911; Evans 2014; Ratcliffe and Cave 2017; ISIC; IWUC; UMRC; CASC; DAVC; ELFC.

Collection dates: April–July.

Specimen label data: Nevada, Story Co., Iowa, 3 April 1902 [2], [no collector], determined H. F. Howden 1953 (ISIC); Ottumwa, Wapello Co., Iowa, 29 May 1937, Floyd Andre, determined H. F. Howden 1953 (ISIC); Soldier, Monona Co., Iowa, 1 June 1971, light trap, T. Orwig (ELFC); Shimek State Forest, Van Buren Co., Iowa, 9 June 2016 [2], UV light, ELF (ELFC).

County records (Figure 172): Fremont, Jackson, Johnson, Henry, Lee, Monona, Muscatine, Polk, Story, Tama, Van Buren, Wapello.

Notes

Published as part of Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, pp. 1-83 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (787) on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353792

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ELFC , ISIC
Event date
1902-04-03 , 1937-05-29 , 1971-06-01 , 2016-06-09
Verbatim event date
1902-04-03 , 1937-05-29 , 1971-06-01 , 2016-06-09
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dynastidae
Genus
Dyscinetus
Species
morator
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius, 1798) sec. Freese, Veal & Lago, 2020

References

  • Wickham, H. F. 1911. A list of the Coleoptera of Iowa. Bulletin of the State University of Iowa Laboratory of Natural History 6 (2): 1 - 40.
  • Evans, A. V. 2014. Beetles of eastern North America. Princeton University Press; Princeton, NJ. 560 p.
  • Ratcliffe, B. C., and R. D. Cave. 2017. The dynastine scarab beetles of the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 30: 1 - 298.