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Cybocephalus nigritulus LeConte

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

Cybocephalus nigritulus LeConte

(Fig. 101–111)

Cybocephalus nigritulus LeConte 1863: 64.

Distribution. In most of North America, this species is found east of the Mississippi River from Ontario, Canada, to Florida, USA. However, in the southern USA, C. nigritulus can be found along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi River and stretching south into Mexico.

Hosts. Dactylopiidae: Dactylopius sp.; Diaspididae: Chionaspis pinifolia (Fitch), Fiorinia theae Green, Pseudaulacaspis cockerelli (Cooley), Pseudaulacaspis pentagona (Targioni-Tozzetti).

Remarks. Like C. californicus, this species is commonly found in North American insect collections. Cybocephalus nigritulus is often found in large numbers where plants are heavily infested with the above-mentioned scale insects. Aspirating the beetles directly off the plants is the most effective collecting technique in these circumstances. For a full description of this species, see Smith and Cave (2006a).

Notes

Published as part of Smith, Trevor Randall, 2022, Review of the Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera) of North America and the West Indies with descriptions of two new species of Cybocephalus Erichson, pp. 1-35 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (950) on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7300614

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
LeConte
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cybocephalidae
Genus
Cybocephalus
Species
nigritulus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • LeConte JL. 1863. New species of North American Coleoptera. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections No. 1676: 1 - 86. [p. 87 - 177 were published in 1866].
  • Smith TR, Cave RD. 2006 a. The Cybocephalidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico. Annales of the Entomological Society of America 99: 776 - 792.