Gymnetis hepatica Di Iorio, 2013

Iorio, Osvaldo Di, 2014, A review of the natural history of adult Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Argentina and adjacent countries, Zootaxa 3790 (2), pp. 281-318 : 290

Gymnetis hepatica Di Iorio, 2013

Fig. 4 (natural history)

Paragymnetis litigiosa (red form), not Gory & Percheron, 1833: Di Iorio 2003: 181 (natural history), 201 (distribution, natural history), fig. 11 (distribution, natural history): misidentification.

Literature food records. ARGENTINA : Santiago del Estero: Sachayoj, 19-I-1993, 12 exx. (ODIC) ( Di Iorio 2013), feeding on sap from wounds of Sphaeralcea bonariensis (Malvaceae) ( Di Iorio 2003) ( Fig. 3 ); Chaco: Charata, 14-I-1992, 2 exx. (ODIC) ( Di Iorio 2013: fig. 48), feeding on sap on stems of Achatocarpus praecox (Achatocarpaceae) bored by a caterpillar ( Di Iorio 2003).

Bait-traps. ARGENTINA : Chaco: Villa Río Bermejito, I-2006, 2 exx. (EAPW), in banana bait trap.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 4. Feeding behavior of adult Cetoniinae: Fig. 1, Allorhina sp., Gymnetis carbo and G. g o r y i feeding on sap of undetermined tree (Pitanguí, Minas Gerais, Brazil, photograph by Nicodemos Rosa); Fig. 2, Gymnetis bonplandi feeding on sap of undetermined tree (Pitanguí, Minas Gerais, Brazil, photograph by Nicodemos Rosa); Fig. 3, Gymnetis strigosa on flowers of Marsdenia woodburiana [Asclepiadaceae] (photograph by Alex Segarra, 17 May 2013); Fig. 4, Gymnetis hepatica, feeding on sap of Sphaeralcea bonariensis, together with Euphoria lurida (Sachayoj, Santiago del Estero, Argentina).