Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858

Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael & Toledo-Hernández, Víctor Hugo, 2019, Contribution to the knowledge of the dentipes group of the genus Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Zootaxa 4701 (6), pp. 537-552 : 550

Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte

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Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte 1858:89 . Gordon 1985:569.

Brachyacantha quadrillum: Crotch 1873:378 . Crotch 1874:211. Gorham 1894: 186. Leng 1911:305. Leng 1920:303. Korschefsky 1931:206.

Type material: Not examined.

Material examined: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: ARIZONA: “ Santa Cruz, Peña Blanca , 23-VII-1973, N. Flaschka” ( FSCA) (1♀) . FLORIDA: no data ( USNMNH) (1♀) ; “ Seminole Co., Econ Wildeness Area , 01-IV- 2000, Trevor B. Smith, scrub oak/saw palmetto (unburden), malaise trap ” ( FSCA) (1♀) . MEXICO: CHIAPAS: “ 10 mi. E. Teopisca, 02-VI-1969, H. F. Howden ” ( USNMNH) (2♀) ; same locality, “ 12-V-1969, H. F. Howden” ( USNMNH) (1♀) ; “ Jct of Hwy 190&195, 24-VI-1973, Ginter Ekis” ( USNMNH) (1♂) ; “ Lagos des Calores , rt 17, 13-V-1969, H. F. Howden ” ( USNMNH) (2♂) ; “P. N. Lagunas de Montebello , 21-VI-1990, M. C. Thomas ” ( FSCA) (1♀, 1♂) . GUANAJUATO: “ 21.6 mi S. Guanajuato, 23-VI-1987, B. K. Dozier” ( FSCA) (1♂) ; “ San Miguel de Al- lende, 12-IV-1992, B. K. Dozier ” ( FSCA) (1♂) . GUERRERO: “ 2-4 mi N. Chilpancingo, 24-VI-1986, B. K. Dozier” ( FSCA) (1♀) ; “ Acahuizotla , 27-VI-1983, col. M. García ” ( CNIN) (1♂) . JALISCO: “ 2 km N. Cocula, 28-IX-1991, Morris, Wappes and Giesbert” ( FSCA) (1♂) ; “ 7 km N. Ahuatlán, Mx 80, microondas de San Francisco , 01-VIII- 2011, Skillman & Turbow” ( FSCA) (1♀) . MICHOACAN: “ 5 mi W. Zamora, 13-IX-1986, B. K. Dozier” ( FSCA) (1♂) . OAXACA: “ San Juan Guichicovi, km 17 Carr. Al Zacatal , 21-XI-1990, col. E. Barrera y A. Cadena ” ( CNIN) (1♂) ; “ Tehuantepec , 10-VII-1966, col. Alberto Ortiz B. ” ( CEAM) (1♂) . PUEBLA: 3.9 mi W Tepexco , 15-VII- 1987, B. K. Dozier ” ( FSCA) (1♀); “ 6 km S. Calmeca, Hw 190, 06-IX-1985, W. Opitz ” ( FSCA) (1♀). QUINTANA ROO: “ 17 km N Carrillo Puerto , 17-VI-1996, M. C. Thomas ” ( FSCA) (1♂); “ road to Tabi , N route 186, 29-V-1984, J. E. Wappes ” ( FSCA) (2♂). SONORA: “ Sierra del Ajos, Cañón de Evans , 15-VII-1970, V. Roth ” ( FSCA) (1♀). VERACRUZ: “ 18 mi W Huatusco , 18-VI-1986, B. K. Dozier ” ( FSCA) (1♀). YUCATAN: “ 13 mi E. Valladolid, 07-VIII-1974, C. W., L. O’Brien & Marshall ” ( FSCA) (1♀); “ km 250 en Camino Viejo número 180, 12-V-1997, R. Morris ” ( FSCA) (1♀, 1♂); “ Chichen Itza , 14-VI-1983, J. E Wappes ” ( FSCA) (1♂) .

Distribution: Gordon (1985) cited this species for Texas, in the United States of America; the material here examined expands the distribution to Arizona and Florida. For Mexico, Gorham (1894) cited the species only from Veracruz, but the material examined shows its presence in ten more states.

Hosts: According the examined material this species has been collected on Serenoa repens (Bartram) Small and Quercus sp. Some material deposited in the United States National Museum of Natural History indicates that the species has been collected on Condalia obtusifolia (Hook. ex. Torr. & A. Gray) Weberb. and Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Brachiacantha quadrillum, male, third ventrite.