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Euphoria fulgida

  • 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

Euphoria fulgida (Fabricius, 1775)

Wickham 1911; Worthington and Larsen 2010; Orozco 2012; ISIC; IWUC; DAVC; ELFC; MJLC.

Collection dates: April–August.

Collected in flight near dogwood flowers, on dogwood flowers, and mating pair on dogwood flowers (Cornus spp.); also collected under leaf litter shallow depression (May) and on very ripe blackberries (Rubus spp.) in August with Cotinis nitida.

Specimen label data: Burlington, Des Moines Co., Iowa, 28 May 1936, F. Andre (ISIC); Nine Eagles State Park, Decatur Co., Iowa, 12 June 2005 [3], dogwood flowers (Cornus spp.), DAV (DAVC, ELFC); Waubonsie State Park, Fremont Co., Iowa, 2 August 2008, eating ripe blackberries [Rubus spp.], DAV (DAVC).

County records (Figure 179): Appanoose, Boone, Clarke, Dallas, Decatur, Des Moines, Fremont, Harrison, Henry, Iowa, Jefferson, Johnson, Lee, Madison, Plymouth, Story, Van Buren, Warren, Winneshiek, Woodbury.

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 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353792

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DAVC , DAVC, ELFC , ISIC
Event date
1936-05-28 , 2005-06-12 , 2008-08-02
Verbatim event date
1936-05-28 , 2005-06-12 , 2008-08-02
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cetoniidae
Genus
Euphoria
Species
fulgida
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Euphoria fulgida (Fabricius, 1775) 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.
  • Worthington, R. J., and K. J. Larsen. 2010. An annotated checklist of scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from northeastern Iowa. The Great Lakes Entomologist 43 (1 - 4): 77 - 90.
  • Orozco, J. 2012. Monographic revision of the American genus Euphoria Burmeister, 1842 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). The Coleopterists Society Monograph 11: 1 - 182.