Cremastocheilus mexicanus

Cremastocheilus mexicanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Cetoniinae
Tribe:	Cremastocheilini
Genus:	Cremastocheilus
Subgenus:	Cremastocheilus
Species:	C. mexicanus
Binomial name
Cremastocheilus mexicanus Schaum, 1841

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

Distribution

Arizona

Habitat

Common host is Formica gnava.

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).

• Burmeister H.C.C. & Schaum H. (1841) Kritische Revision der Lamellicornia melitophila (second part): Zeitschrift für die Entomologie, herausgegeben von Ernst Friedrich Germar. Leipzig 3:226-282

• Mann, W.M. 1914. Some myrmecophilous insects from Mexico. Psyche 21 (6):171-184, 3 figs. correction slip.

• 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'