Rediscovery of Romulus globosus Knull (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Authors

M. C. Thomas, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FLFollow

Date of this Version

June 1991

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 5. No. 2. June 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Thomas.

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

One of the rarest U.S. cerambycids, Romulus globosus, was described by Knull in 1948 based on four specimens collected in peninsular Florida. No new records have been reported in the literature since. Linsley (1963) apparently saw no specimens, since he merely quoted the original description, and gave the distribution as "Southern Florida."