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Cremastocheilus spinifer
| Cremastocheilus spinifer | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Cetoniinae |
| Tribe: | Cremastocheilini |
| Genus: | Cremastocheilus |
| Subgenus: | Trinodia |
| Species: | C. spinifer |
| Binomial name | |
| Cremastocheilus spinifer Horn, 1885
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One of about thirty-five species of myrmecophilous Cremastocheilus. The host ant is Pheidole.
Identification
Key to Trinodia species
The mentum is rather deeply cupuliform, smooth, the hind angles entire.
Distribution
Texas
Habitat
Common ant host is Pheidole?
Biology
Nomenclature
One specimen, Texas.
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).