Chestnut Timberworm in Howard Co., Maryland (6/29/2017). (c) Timothy Reichard, all rights reserved.
Chestnut Timberworm in Howard Co., Maryland (6/29/2017). (c) Timothy Reichard, all rights reserved.
Chestnut Timberworm in Howard Co., Maryland (6/29/2017). (c) Timothy Reichard, all rights reserved.
A female Chestnut Timberworm collected in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/17/2006).
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A male Chestnut Timberworm collected in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/17/2006).
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The palps of a male Chestnut Timberworm collected in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/17/2006).
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Frank Guarnieri
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Description
"The complex and conspicuous basket-like structure attached to the third segment of each maxillary palp of Melittomma sericeum males is densely covered with tactile hairs on its outer or convex surface and with thinwalled chemoreceptors on its inner or concave surface. In a living male the structure is highly mobile and is extended laterally and ventrally. It evidently serves to detect odors produced by the female." (Slifer, 1975)
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A female Chestnut Timberworm collected in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/17/2006).
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Frank Guarnieri.
A male Chestnut Timberworm collected in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/17/2006).
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Frank Guarnieri.
The palps of a male Chestnut Timberworm collected in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/17/2006).
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Frank Guarnieri.
Source: Wikipedia
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Melittomma sericeum, the chestnut timberworm, is a species of ship-timber beetle in the family Lymexylidae.[1][2] It is found in North America.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Melittomma sericeum Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ a b "Melittomma sericeum Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ "Images and collection data for Melittomma sericeum". Pictures from Earth. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- Wheeler, Quentin D. (1986). "Revision of the genera of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 183, no. 2, 113–210.
- Young, Daniel K. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 71. Lymexylidae Fleming 1821". American Beetles, volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 261–262.
Further reading
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- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.