Megacerus (Megacerus) cubiculus (Casey, 1884)

Nápoles, Jesús Romero, 2018, A New Species of the Seed Beetle Genus Megacerus Fåhraeus, 1839 (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) and Redescription of Megacerus centralis (Pic), with a Key to the Mexican Species and New Host and Distribution Records, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3), pp. 531-540 : 538

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-72.3.531

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:99EE10B8-A088-4132-90FE-1F6008F3F250

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5466490

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scientific name

Megacerus (Megacerus) cubiculus (Casey, 1884)
status

 

Megacerus (Megacerus) cubiculus (Casey, 1884)

Distribution. Old records: Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, USA, Venezuela. New records: Bahamas: Atala Coppice, Andros Is., 6/VI/2004, M. C. Thomas & BLT (1 ex FSCA). Trinidad and Tobago: Goldsborough, 26/V/1994, M. J. Sommeijer (1 ex FSCA); same data but 3/III/1994 (1 ex FSCA); same data but 31/III/1994 (1 ex FSCA).

New Host Plants. USA, Florida, Oak Haven nr. Lake City , Columbia Co., 1/XII/2010, Staples G., reared seed Ipomoea cordatotriloba Dennst. (5 ex FSCA) . Venezuela, Anzoategui, 14 km NE Santa Rosa , 18/II/ 1985, 396 m, C. D. Johnson, reared seed Ipomoea incarnata (Vahl) Choisy (3 ex TAMU) .

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

TAMU

Texas A&M University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Megacerus

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