Texas Beetle Information

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Pleasing Mannophorus

Mannophorus laetus LeConte, 1854

Family Cerambycidae, Subfamily Cerambycinae, Tribe Trachyderini

(nectaring on Texas Lantana, Lantana horrida)

Hidalgo Co., Texas (M Quinn)

Texas County Records for Mannophorus laetus

County Record Source: E.G. Riley, Dec. 2005

Range: Texas; San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Adult Activity: May, September to November (Hovore et al, 1987)

Host: Unknown, probably attacks the root crown or branches of a woody shrub (Dan Heffern, pers. comm.).

Similar Species: There are two species of Mannophorus, but only Mannophorus laetus occurs in Texas.

Mannophorus forreri Bates - Arizona
Mannophorus laetus LeConte

Etymology: Mannophorus laetus

mann, -o, =us (G). A collar, necklace
phorus ?
laet (L). Gay, pleasing

References:

Arnett, R.H., Jr., M.C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley & J.H. Frank. (editors). 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. xiv + 861 pp.

Borror, D.J. 1960. Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. National Press Books, Palo Alto. v + 134 pp.

Giesbert, E.F. & F.T. Hovore. 1976. Records and descriptions of some southwestern Cerambycidae (Coleoptera). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 30(1): 95-99.

Hovore, F.T., R.L. Penrose & R.W. Neck. 1987. The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a faunal survey (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 44(13): 283-334, 20 figs.

Monné, M.A. & F.T. Hovore. 2005. Electronic Checklist of the Cerambycidae of the Western Hemisphere. 393 pp.