Cremastocheilus crinitus bifoveatus

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Cremastocheilus bifoveatus
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).