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

Authors

Steven Lingafelter, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2003

Citation

Journal of the New York Entomological Society (2003) 111(1): 57–60

Comments

United States government work. Public domain

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.