Cremastocheilus crinitus pugetanus

Cremastocheilus crinitus pugetanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Cetoniinae
Tribe:	Cremastocheilini
Genus:	Cremastocheilus
Subgenus:	Cremastocheilus
Species:	C. crinitus pugetanus
Binomial name
Cremastocheilus crinitus pugetanus Casey, 1915

One of about thirty-five species of myrmecophilous Cremastocheilus. The host ant is Formica.

Distribution

Idaho, Utah, Washington

Habitat

Common host is Formica.

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).

• Casey, T.L. 1915. Memoirs on the Coleoptera. The New Era Printing Company, Lancaster, PA. (6)pp. 340-370.

• LeConte J.L. (1874) Descriptions of new Coleoptera chiefly from the Pacific slope of North America: Transactions of the American Entomological Society 5:43-72.

• Mudge, A.D. and G. Henderson. 1986. A mating aggregation of the myrmecophilous scarb Cremastocheilus crinitus pugetanus Casey (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, (3): 245-246.

• Van Dyke, E. 1918. Some new beetles in the families Cantharidae (Lampyridae), Ptinidae, and Scarabaeidae, from western North America, with notes upon others. Bull. Brooklyn ent. Soc. 13: 1-15. PDF'