Cremastocheilus crinitus bifoveatus
Cremastocheilus bifoveatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Scarabaeidae |
Subfamily: | Cetoniinae |
Tribe: | Cremastocheilini |
Genus: | Cremastocheilus |
Subgenus: | Myrmecotonus |
Species: | C. bifoveatus |
Binomial name | |
Cremastocheilus bifoveatus Van Dyke, 1918 |
One of about thirty-five species of myrmecophilous Cremastocheilus. The host ant is unknown.
Identification
Distribution
Arizona (Flagstaff), California, Idaho, Oregon, Washington; Canada (British Columbia)
Habitat
Common host is unknown.
Biology
Nomenclature
Type and paratype in the collection of Van Dyke at the California Academy of Sciences. Collected at Flagstaff, Arizona, May 5, 1916 by Mr. T.N. Gooding and presented to Van Dyke by Mr. Preston Clark.
Description
References
- Alpert, Gary D. 1994. A Comparative Study of the Symbiotic Relationship Between Beetles of the Genus Cremastocheilus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and their Host Ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Sociobiology 25(1).