Drapetes niger Bonvouloir

Johnson, Paul J., 2015, A new species of Drapetes Megerle (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with taxonomic summaries and a key to the species of northern North America, Insecta Mundi 2015 (445), pp. 1-13 : 6

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5182608

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Drapetes niger Bonvouloir
status

 

Drapetes niger Bonvouloir

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Drapetes niger Bonvouloir 1859: 78 ; Horn 1890: 207; Fleutiaux 1894: 689, 1895: 160; Schaeffer 1902: 176, 1916: 62; Blanchard 1917: 6; Leng 1920: 177; Schenkling 1928: 8

Drapetes nigra , of Blackwelder 1944: 304 (incorrect gender change)

Distribution: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Mexico; Panama; United States: Texas.

Notes. Drapetes niger is a small lowland Mesoamerican species that enters the United States only in the southernmost coastal woodlands in Cameron Co., Texas. The species is immediately recognized in our fauna by its elongate shape and long cinereous pubescence giving a grizzled appearance, usually elytra with pubescence forming a band just posterior of mid-length.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malvales

Family

Thymelaeaceae

Genus

Drapetes

Loc

Drapetes niger Bonvouloir

Johnson, Paul J. 2015
2015
Loc

Drapetes nigra

Blackwelder, R. E. 1944: 304
1944
Loc

Drapetes niger

Schenkling, S. 1928: 8
Leng, C. W. 1920: 177
Blanchard, F. 1917: 6
Fleutiaux, E. 1895: 160
Fleutiaux, E. 1894: 689
Horn, G. H. 1890: 207
Bonvouloir, H. 1859: 78
1859
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