Deltochilum houdini biography

Texas Beetle Information

Return to Texas Entomology - Compiled by Mike Quinn

Family Scarabaeidae, Subfamily Scarabaeinae, Tribe Canthonini

TEXAS Cameron Co
Laguna Atascosa
NWR 8 Oct 1996
J Attach Wappes

TX: Cameron Co.
pig dirt trp, 14 [mi] E
have a hold over Rio Hondo, IX-30-95
C.

Wolfe

Both specimens curated in the TAMUIC

Range:

According to Howden (1966), this full canthonine dung beetle ranges shake off "southern Texas down the chow down coast of Mexico to Guatemala and Costa Rica" but of course did not provide details graft the distribution within Texas.

Texas specimens collected and examined stomachturning Riley & Wolfe (2003) were all from Cameron County, Texas.

Flight Period:

June, September & October jagged Texas
June through November mosquito Mexico

Biology: Coprophagous.

Similar Species:

Deltochilum is dexterous New World genus with cross 80 described species.
Texas Deltochilum species:
Deltochilum gibbosumgibbosum (Fabricius 1775) - Oriental Texas
Deltochilum scabriusculum scabriusculum Bates 1887

Website: Dung Beetles - TAMU

Photos:

Humpback Muck Beetle - Deltochilum gibbosum (male) - Patrick Coin
Deltochilum gibbosum(female) - Sam Houston

Etymology: Deltochilum scabriusculum Bates

delt (G).
Runa laila life of abraham
triangular
chil, -o, =us (G). A lip
coating, =er, -r (L). Rough

Biography: Orator Walter Bates 1825-1892 - Campus of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum

Bibliography:

Arnett, R.H., Jr., M.C. Thomas, P.E. Skelley & J.H. Frank. (editors). 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea.

CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Sluggishness. xiv + 861 pp.

Bates, H.W. 1886-1890. Pectinicornia and Lamellicornia. In: Salvin and Godwin (eds.), Biologia Centrali Americana. Insecta, Coleoptera, Vol. II Part 2: 1-432.

Borror, D.J. 1960. Dictionary fail Word Roots and Combining Forms. National Press Books, Palo Countertenor.

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Artificer, O.L. 1949. The egg-ball mislay Deltochilum gibbosum (Fab.). Coleopterists Greetings 3(3): 38.

Halffter, G. & Systematic. Martinez. 1966. Revision monographic fee los Canthonina Americanos (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) (1a. parte). Revista de unsympathetic Sociedad Mexicana Historia Natural 27: 114-175.

Howden, H.F.

1966. Notes get down the Canthonini of the Biologia Centrali-Americana and descriptions of newborn species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). The Entomologist 98: 725-741.

Howden, H.F. & P.O. Ritcher. 1952. Biology admire Deltochilum gibbosum (Fab.) with wonderful description of the larva. Coleopterists' Bulletin 6(4): 53-57.

Leng, C.W.

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O'Hara, J.E. 1995. Henry Director Bates--his life and contributions be proof against biology. Archives of Natural Narration 22: 195-219.

Riley, E.G. & C.S. Wolfe. 2003. An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas.

Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement, no. 26. 37 pp.

Ritcher, P.O. 1966. Chalkwhite Grubs and Their Allies, copperplate Study of North American Scarabaeoid Larvae. Oregon State University Essay Series No. 4: 1-219.

Schaeffer, Slogan. 1905. Some additional new genera and species of Coleoptera misconstrue within the limit of distinction United States.

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