Drapetes rubricollis LeConte

Johnson, Paul J., 2015, A new species of Drapetes Megerle (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with taxonomic summaries and a key to the species of northern North America, Insecta Mundi 2015 (445), pp. 1-13 : 7

Drapetes rubricollis LeConte

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Drapetes rubricollis LeConte 1863b: 82 (not Dejean, 1833: 84, 1836: 95; not LeConte 1863a: 44 nomen nudum); Crotch 1873: 66; Schwarz 1878: 452; Henshaw 1885: 72; Horn 1885: 207; Trumbull 1893: 151; Blatchley 1910: 774; Haimbach 1906: 38; Wickham 1908: 401; Schaeffer 1916: 62; Blanchard 1917: 6; Leng 1920: 177; Schenkling 1928: 8; Kirk 1969: 52; Peck and Thomas 1998: 71

Distribution. United States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina.

Notes. This is a poorly known species in the southeastern states. With its red and black coloration it is sometimes misidentified as Drapetes bicolor (Laporte de Castelnau) . Drapetes rubricollis has the head black and the body is smaller and more evenly oval, while D. bicolor has strong blue reflections on the elytra, the head is concolorous with the pronotum, and it is known authoritatively from Cuba, Hispaniola, and The Bahamas (Andros I.).

Figures

Figures 3–8. Drapetes species, dorsal habitus. 3) Drapetes cylindricus, holotype (image courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, with permission). 4) Drapetes exstriatus. 5) Drapetes niger. 6) Drapetes plagiatus. 7) Drapetes quadripustulatus. 8) Drapetes rubricollis.