Flower-Inhabiting Sap Beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) in Guatemala

Jiichiro Yoshimoto; Gareth S. Powell; Andrew R. Cline

doi:10.1649/0010-065X-72.4.762

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Jiichiro Yoshimoto,^1,2 Gareth S. Powell,³ Andrew R. Cline⁴

¹Fundación de Defensa del Medio Ambiente de Baja Verapaz Salamá, Baja Verapaz, GUATEMALA
²Systematic Entomology Laboratory Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Apartado Postal 82, 01015 Guatemala City, GUATEMALA jyoshimoto@uvg.edu.gt
³Department of Biology, Brigham Young University 4102 LSB, Provo, UT, USA garethpowell@byu.edu
⁴California Department of Food and Agriculture Plant Pest Diagnostics Center 3294 Meadowview Road Sacramento, CA, USA andrew.cline@cdfa.ca.gov

Abstract

We report three species of Nitops Murray (Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) sampled from fallen and freshly withered flowers of the columnar cactus Stenocereus pruinosus (Otto) Buxb. (Cactaceae) in a subtropical dry forest in Guatemala. Our observations suggest that adults of these species oviposit inside the flowers during or prior to the blooming period, and the larvae feed on floral tissues. Larval feeding likely occurs without damaging floral ovaries due to flower abscission.

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Jiichiro Yoshimoto, Gareth S. Powell , and Andrew R. Cline "Flower-Inhabiting Sap Beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae: Carpophilinae) in Guatemala," The Coleopterists Bulletin 72(4), 762-766, (28 December 2018). https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-72.4.762

Received: 20 March 2018; Accepted: 9 September 2018; Published: 28 December 2018

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