identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
A21487AC4363FF9D31E2FE4AAD30FC8E.text	A21487AC4363FF9D31E2FE4AAD30FC8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nemognatha (Meganemognatha) lutea (LeConte)	<div><p>Nemognatha (Meganemognatha) lutea (LeConte)</p> <p>Nemognatha lutea is widespread throughout much of the western United States and northern Mexico (Enns 1956; García-París et al. 2008; Werner et al. 1966). It is commonly taken in southwestern California at localities adjacent to the Mexico border.</p> <p>Baja California: Laguna Hansen, rd. to (10 km NE Hwy 3) (31.91887°N, −116.07656°); v-13- 2017; on Cirsium occidentale; 10; W. and M. Clark (#14,502); CICESE, CIDA. Rd. to Mike’s Sky Ranch, 16.5 mi. SW Hwy 3 (31.13448°, −115.64644°); v-10-2017; on Cirsium occidentale; 15; W. H. and M. Clark (#14,499, #14,500); CICESE, CIDA. New peninsular record.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A21487AC4363FF9D31E2FE4AAD30FC8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pinto, John D.;Clark, William H.	Pinto, John D., Clark, William H. (2022): New Records of Meloidae (Coleoptera) from the Baja California Peninsula, with Description of a New Species of Lytta Fabricius. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (1): 45-53, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.1.45, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.1.45
A21487AC4363FF9D31E2FCF9AA36FBB3.text	A21487AC4363FF9D31E2FCF9AA36FBB3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nemognatha (Meganemognatha) macswaini Enns 1956	<div><p>Nemognatha (Meganemognatha) macswaini Enns</p> <p>Nemognatha macswaini is a desertic southwestern species most often collected on Larrea (Zygophyllaceae) (Enns 1956; Werner et al. 1966). It has not previously been known from Mexico.</p> <p>Baja California: Cataviña; iv-17-1965; 2; Cavagnaro, Ross, Vesterby; CAS. Hamilton Ranch Airfield, 0.5 mi. E; iv-28-1963; 2; CAS. New peninsular record.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A21487AC4363FF9D31E2FCF9AA36FBB3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pinto, John D.;Clark, William H.	Pinto, John D., Clark, William H. (2022): New Records of Meloidae (Coleoptera) from the Baja California Peninsula, with Description of a New Species of Lytta Fabricius. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (1): 45-53, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.1.45, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.1.45
A21487AC4362FF9E33F9FE24AB7EFBCB.text	A21487AC4362FF9E33F9FE24AB7EFBCB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lytta (Poreospasta) cochimi Pinto & Clark 2022	<div><p>Lytta (Poreospasta) cochimi Pinto, new species zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 8D7DAC71-C96D-4D6A-B6E6-E4F9E23DEB7C (Figs. 1, 2, 5–11)</p> <p>Description. Black except with a large orange frontal macula at center of head capsule; macula occupying ca. 0.4 greatest head width. Surface dull to slightly lustrous; head smooth (♀) to slightly corrugate (♂); pronotum slightly corrugate with subtle, largely transverse wrinkles at central area of disc; elytra rugulose. Head distinctly to obsolescently punctate; pronotum sparsely, obsolescently punctate. Venter, legs, underside of head, and mouthparts with moderately long black pubescence; pronotum subglabrous; elytra with short, black pubescence confined to lateral and apical margins. Fully winged; elytra complete. Length 9 (♂)– 12 mm (both ♀♀). Head: Subquadrate, 0.72 as long as wide in ♂, 0.69 and 0.75 as long as wide in ♀♀, slightly wider at tempora than below; eyes small, suboval.Antennae relatively short, subclavate, length ca. 1.5× (♀)– 2.0× (♂) pronotal width; more robust in female; length/width of antennomeres in male (holotype): 16/10, 7/9, 19/10, 13/10, 14/11, 18/12, 19/13, 17/13, 14/14, 14/13, 24/13; length/width of antennomeres in female (allotype): 17/11, 7/8, 20/10, 10/10, 10/11, 10/11, 11/12, 13/13, 14/14, 14/14, 28/15. ThoraX: Pronotum widest at apical third, 0.90 as long as wide in ♂, 0.84 and 0.89 as long as wide in ♀♀, ca. 0.8– 0.9× width of head, with sides broadly, evenly arcuate, disc surface slightly convex.Legs unmodified; not noticeably different in male and female except male with poorly developed pad at apex of protarsomeres I–IV, pads absent in female; all legs with two apical tibial spurs, those on pro- and mesotibia spiniform; hind tibia with outer spur enlarged apically, ca. 3.0× as wide as inner spur; tarsal claws moderately curved, cleft to base, blades subequal in length. Abdomen: Male ventrite 6 triangularly emarginate apically, emargination extending ca. 0.4 into ventrite; female ventrite 6 not emarginate, truncate apically. Male genitalia with gonostyli glabrous, each gonostylus bearing a mesal hook apically; aedeagus with two dorsal hooks, basal hook slightly larger, ventral hook large, robust.</p> <p>Type Specimens. Holotype ♂: Mexico: Baja California: “km 115, S El Rosario”; iv-7-1979; A. V. Evans. Richard L. Westcott has collected at the km 115 site and reported (in litt.) the coordinates as 29.98732°, −115.21011° (0.85 mi. NW El Progresso). Allotype ♀ and one paratype ♀, same data as holotype. Holotype and allotype deposited in the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA (CAS); paratype deposited in the Entomological Research Museum, University of California, Riverside, CA (UCRC).</p> <p>Etymology. After Cochimí, the name of the indigenous people inhabiting the region where the new species was collected.</p> <p>Remarks. A combination of characters in the male places L. cochimi in the Stygica Group of the subgenus Poreospasta Horn as defined by Selander (1960). This includes the presence of mesal hooks on the gonostyli (the apical section of the gonoforceps, Fig. 7), unmodified legs, and subclavate, not incrassate, antennae (Figs. 5, 6). The Stygica Group, with 12 previously described species, is primarily distributed in cismontane California with only L. stygica and L. auriculata occurring more broadly. In Selander’s (1960) keys (general key and key to Stygica Group species), L. cochimi runs to L. stygica.</p> <p>Lytta cochimi is separated from L. stygica by several characters. The orange macula on the head capsule is considerably larger in L. cochimi, occupying almost half the head width (Fig. 2); in L. stygica it is comprised of a small oval spot (Fig. 4). The antennae are subclavate in L. cochimi (Figs. 5, 6) and the antennomeres are relatively short with antennomeres IV–X about as wide as long in females. The antennae of L. stygica are subfiliform and antennomeres IV–X are clearly longer than wide in both sexes. The hind tibial spurs provide another distinction. In L. cochimi the outer spur is very broad, ca. 3× the width of the inner spur (Fig. 11); in L. stygica the outer spur is, at most, twice the width of the inner spur (Fig. 12). The rather deeply incised apex of ventrite 6 in the male of L. cochimi (Fig. 10) contrasts with the considerably shallower emargination in L. stygica. The two dorsal hooks of the aedeagus also should separate L. cochimi (Fig. 9) from most L. stygica males which, according to Selander (1960), only rarely bear a weak second hook [in Selander (1960) the dorsal hooks are referred to as ventral].</p> <p>The similarity of L. cochimi and L. stygica does not imply close relationship. Their similarity rests on the fact that both lack distinctive features of other members of the Stygica Group. Distinguishing features of L. cochimi that are shared with other members of the group include the enlarged orange macula on the head and the considerably enlarged outer hind tibial spur, also occurring in Lytta sublaevis (Horn) (cf. Figs. 2, 3) and the two dorsal hooks on the aedeagus found also in Lytta crotchi (Horn) and Lytta hoppingi (LeConte). Features shared by L. cochimi and L. sublaevis are likely derived but questionably homologous. Phenetically, the two species are quite distinct. Lytta sublaevis, a central California species, is unique for Lytta in being wingless with abbreviated elytra, appearing superficially similar to species of the genus Meloe Linnaeus. Also, the male genitalia and antennal structure further distinguish the two.</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A21487AC4362FF9E33F9FE24AB7EFBCB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pinto, John D.;Clark, William H.	Pinto, John D., Clark, William H. (2022): New Records of Meloidae (Coleoptera) from the Baja California Peninsula, with Description of a New Species of Lytta Fabricius. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (1): 45-53, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.1.45, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.1.45
A21487AC436EFF90325DFF79ADDBFAAE.text	A21487AC436EFF90325DFF79ADDBFAAE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Meloidae KNOWN TO OCCUR IN	<div><p>SPECIES OF MELOIDAE KNOWN TO OCCUR IN THE BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA</p> <p>(* = likely peninsular endemics)</p> <p>Meloinae</p> <p>Cysteodemus armatus LeConte.— BC Epicauta afoveata Werner.— BC</p> <p>Epicauta arizonica Werner. — BCS</p> <p>Epicauta exors (Fall)*.— BCS</p> <p>Epicauta fortis Werner.— BC, BCS</p> <p>Epicauta languida (Horn) *.— BCS</p> <p>Epicauta lauta Horn. — BC, BCS</p> <p>Epicauta occipitalis Werner *.— BC, BCS Epicauta pedalis LeConte *.— BC, BCS Epicauta phoenix Werner.— BC</p> <p>Epicauta puncticollis Mannerheim.— BC Epicauta straba Horn.— BC</p> <p>Epicauta tenebrosa Werner. — BC</p> <p>Epicauta tenella (LeConte).— BC, BCS Epicauta tenuilineata (Horn).— BCS Epicauta virgulata (LeConte).— BC, BCS Eupompha decolorata (Horn) *.— BC, BCS Eupompha elegans (LeConte).— BC Eupompha imperialis (Wellman).— BC Eupompha vizcaina Pinto *.— BC, BCS Lytta auriculata Horn. — BC, BCS</p> <p>Lytta childi LeConte.— BC, BCS</p> <p>Lytta cochimi Pinto *.— BC</p> <p>Lytta crotchi (Horn).— BC</p> <p>Lytta incompta Pinto *.— BC</p> <p>Lytta lugens (LeConte).— BC</p> <p>Lytta magister Horn. — BC, BCS</p> <p>Lytta margarita (Fall) *.— BCS</p> <p>Lytta melaena LeConte.— BCS</p> <p>Lytta mutilata (Horn).— BC</p> <p>Lytta nitidicollis (LeConte).— BC</p> <p>Lytta peninsularis (Fall) *.— BCS</p> <p>Lytta vulnerata (LeConte).— Peninsular record only.</p> <p>Meloe strigulosus Mannerheim.— Peninsular record only.**</p> <p>Phodaga alticeps LeConte.— BC</p> <p>Phodaga marmorata (Casey).— BC, BCS Pleuropasta mirabilis (Horn).— BC, BCS Pyrota palpalis Champion. — BC, BCS</p> <p>Pyrota trochanterica Horn. — BC, BCS Spastonyx nemognathoides Selander.— BCS Tegrodera erosa LeConte.— BC, BCS Tetraonyx dubiosus Horn *.— BCS Nemognathinae</p> <p>Gnathium francilloni Kirby.— BCS Gnathium minimum (Say).— BC</p> <p>Gnathium nitidum Horn. — BC, BCS Gnathium vandykei MacSwain.— BC, BCS Nemognatha bridwelli Wellman.— BC Nemognatha cantharidis MacSwain.— BC Nemognatha insularis Blaisdell *.— BC Nemognatha lutea (LeConte).— BC Nemognatha nigripennis LeConte. — BC, BCS Nemognatha scutellaris LeConte. — BC Pseudozonitis arizonica (Van Dyke).— BCS Pseudozonitis brevis Enns.— BC, BCS Pseudozonitis huetheri Pinto *.— BCS Pseudozonitis stroudi Enns.— BCS Pseudozonitis vaurieae Enns.— BC, BCS Pseudozonitis vigilans (Fall).— BC, BCS Zonitis atripennis (Say).— BCS</p> <p>Zonitis interpretis Enns.— BC</p> <p>Zonitis minutissima Pinto.— BCS</p> <p>** Pinto and Selander (1970) recorded a specimen of this species simply labelled “Lower California ”. García-París et al. (2007) attributed an unidentified female Meloe recorded by Horn (1894) from Sierra El Chinche (BCS) to M. strigulosus. The basis of this identification is not clear. Horn considered the specimen before him as close to Meloe cordillerae Chevrolat, a junior synonym of Meloe laevis Leach.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A21487AC436EFF90325DFF79ADDBFAAE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Pinto, John D.;Clark, William H.	Pinto, John D., Clark, William H. (2022): New Records of Meloidae (Coleoptera) from the Baja California Peninsula, with Description of a New Species of Lytta Fabricius. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (1): 45-53, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.1.45, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.1.45
