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Martineziana Chalumeau and Ozdikmen 2006
Martineziana Chalumeau and Ozdikmen 2006: 69-70
Photo by Paul Skelley.
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Type species. Oxyomus excavaticollis Blanchard 1843: 184, by original designation.
= Martinezia Chalumeau 1983: 144 [not Martinezia Bolivar
1881: 494, Orthoptera].
= Martineziella Chalumeau 1986: 386 [not Martineziella Hegner
and Hewitt 1941, Protozoa].
Diagnosis. Body length 4.6-6.0 mm, elongate, parallel-sided, reddish-brown to black, usually glossy. Head broad. Pronotum laterally explanate, lateral margin with dense fringe of scale-like setae. Elytra not inflexed laterally. Meso- and metatibia slender, with distinct setal rows.
Distribution. Southern North America (introduced), Mexico to South America.
Composition. Martineziana contains 7 species.
Martineziana argentina (Harold 1867: 99) [Euparia], Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay.
= Euparia simplex Balthasar 1963: 284.
Martineziana cambeforti (Chalumeau 1983: 151) [Martinezia], Boliva, Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana.
Martineziana dutertrei (Chalumeau 1983: 147) [Martinezia] S-S.Amer., W.Indies and SE-USA (introduced).
= Myrmecaphodius excavaticollis of authors, not Blanchard 1843.
Martineziana excavaticollis (Blanchard 1843: 184) [Oxyomus], Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay.
Martineziana separata (Schmidt 1909: 44) [Euparia], Paraguay.
= Martinezia separa (Schmidt), in Chalumeau 1983: 146 (misspelling).
Martineziana vandykei (Hinton 1936: 273) [Euparia], Mexico.
Life History. Members of Martineziana are primarily associated with fire ants (Solenopsis spp.) (Stebnicka 2007). Other specimens have been colleced with the Argentine ant, Iridomyrmex humilis (Mayr) (Stebnicka), and are occasionally collected at light. Some work has been done on M. dutertrei in the southeastern United States (as M. excavaticollis in Wojcik et al. 1977a, 1977b, 1978).
Larvae. Unknown.
References.
Chalumeau, F. 1983. Batesiana et Martinezia, nouveux genres d’Eupariini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) du nouveau monde. Bulletin Mensuel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon 52(5): 142-153.
Stebnicka, Z. T. 2007. New species of Iarupea Martínez and morphological specializations among related taxa associated with ants and termites (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Eupariini). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 114(3): 573-590.
Wojcik, D. P., W. A. Banks, D. M. Hicks, and J. W. Summerlin. 1977a. Fire ant myrmecophiles: new hosts and distribution of Myrmecaphodius excavaticollis (Blanchard) and Euparia castanea Serville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 31: 329-334.
Wojcik, D. P., and D. H. Habeck. 1977b. Fire ant myrmecophiles: breeding period and ovariole number in Myrmecaphodius excavaticollis (Blanchard) and Euparia castanea Serville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 31: 335-338.
Wojcik, D. P., W. A. Banks, and D. H. Habeck. 1978. Fire ant myrmecophiles: flight periods of Myrmecaphodius excavaticollis (Blanchard) and Euparia castanea Serville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 32: 59-64.
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| Author: Paul Skelley Generated on: 08/MAY/08.....Last modified: 08/MAY/08 University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology |