Cybocephalus kathrynae T. R. Smith in T. R. Smith & Cave 2006
Authors/Creators
- 1. Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services 1911 SW 34 th St. / PO Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614 - 7100
Description
(Fig. 93–100)
Cybocephalus kathrynae T. R. Smith in Smith and Cave 2006a: 783–784.
Distribution. USA (Florida).
Hosts. Unknown.
Remarks. Virtually every specimen collected in Florida has come from sifting sand and leaf litter at the base of grass clumps. A single specimen was found in Florida within a Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius) (Formicidae) nest as part of a tropical fire ant faunal study. This ant species is known to tend honeydew-producing insects (Tschinkel 2006), which may have brought them into contact with C. kathrynae feeding on said homopterans. This is a wingless species; unlike Cybocephalus randalli, no winged phenotypes have been found. Based on this physiological characteristic, pitfall trapping may be an effective collection technique in the proper habitat. Several large series of the wingless phenotypes of C. randalli have been collected in Baja California, Mexico using pitfall traps (Smith 2020).
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7300640 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.7300614 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- T. R. Smith in T. R. Smith & Cave
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Cybocephalidae
- Genus
- Cybocephalus
- Species
- kathrynae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cybocephalus kathrynae in T. R., 2006 sec. Smith, 2022
References
- Smith TR, Cave RD. 2006 a. The Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico. Annales of the Entomological Society of America 99: 776 - 792.
- Tschinkel WR. 2006. The fire ants. Belknap / Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Massachusetts. 730 p.
- Smith TR. 2020. Description of two new genera and a taxonomic key to the world genera of Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera). Insecta Mundi 0834: 1 - 24.