New Host and Elevation Records for Moneilema appressum Leconte (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

Authors

Steven Lingafelter, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, ARS, USDA and National Museum of Natural History, MRC-168, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A.

Date of this Version

2003

Comments

Published in J. New York Entomol. Soc. 111(1): 57–60, 2003.

Abstract

An isolated population of Moneilema appressum LeConte was discovered above Long Park in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona (31°52’44”N, 109°17’12”W) during July 2001. Specimens of this flightless lamiine cerambycid were observed hiding and walking in the junctures of Echinocereus coccineus Engelmann (Cactaceae) at 2,760 m (9,055 feet). These data represent new host plant and elevation records for this species.