Cremastocheilus planatus

Cremastocheilus planatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Cetoniinae
Tribe:	Cremastocheilini
Genus:	Cremastocheilus
Subgenus:	Macropodina
Species:	C. planatus
Binomial name
Cremastocheilus planatus LeConte, 1866 Holotype Specimen Label

One of about thirty-five species of myrmecophilous Cremastocheilus. The host ant is Camponotus.

Identification

See Key to Macropodina species

Holotype - Fore-tarsi

Holotype - ventral view Dorsal view

Distribution

Arizona, California (2 km S. Stanford University, W.M. Mann 1911), Texas; Mexico

Habitat

Common host is Camponotus.

Nomenclature

Synonym:

• Cremastocheilus depressus (Horn, 1871);
• Cremastocheilus ampla (Casey, 1915)

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).

• Casey, T.L. 1915. Memoirs on the Coleoptera. The New Era Printing Company, Lancaster, PA. (6)pp. 340-370.

• Cazier M.A. 1940 New North American myrmecophilous Scarabaeidae Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Lancastar 35(4):122-133.

• Horn, G.H. 1871. Descriptions of New Coleoptera of the United States with Notes on Known Species. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 111: 325-344.

• LeConte, J.L. 1866. New species of North American Coleoptera I. Smiths. Misc. Coll. VI., no 167: 81.

• Mann, W. M. 1911a. Notes on the guests of some Californian ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 18:27-31. [1911-02]