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<taxonomicName id="3F538DAC111F3D2A285116D58AE79F5D" ID-CoL="493S" authority="Harold, 1869" authorityName="Harold" authorityYear="1869" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Dyscinetus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dyscinetus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="50" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Dyscinetus Harold, 1869</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="B5596335EADB7584869CE861FFBE2CB6" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Type species.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="B38FD10008F774C4205038A38C6A23C0" class="Insecta" family="Scarabaeidae" genus="Melolontha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melolontha geminata" order="Coleoptera" pageId="50" pageNumber="51" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="geminata">Melolontha geminata</taxonomicName>
Fabricius, 1801, by monotypy.
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<paragraph id="403EEC33D68E35B925ADE660A2891C9F" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">Valid taxa.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="BF06124FFC224316FC430DF4ABCA656B" pageId="50" pageNumber="51">21 species.</paragraph>
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The genus
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comprises 21 species distributed from North America south to Argentina and the West Indies (Fig. 58). Smooth, large, and mostly black
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species superficially resemble hydrophilid beetles.
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is generally not considered an aquatic or semiaquatic genus. However, some species in the genus have an intriguing association with moist, mucky soils and aquatic plants.
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and another
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sp. attack water hyacinth in Uruguay (
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,
<bibRefCitation id="ECC8098B1350EB9C6E589B292E33792C" author="Bennett, FD" journalOrPublisher="Hyacinth Control Journal" pageId="64" pageNumber="65" pagination="44 - 52" title="Exploration for natural enemies of the water hyacinth in northern South America and Trinidad." volume="7" year="1968">Bennett and Zwolfer 1968</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="4F7A3165C3732ABE295F50E9B4DF5CDA" author="Perkins, BD" journalOrPublisher="Pest Articles and News Summaries" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="304 - 314" title="Arthropods that stress waterhyacinth." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/09670877409411855" volume="20" year="1974">Perkins 1974</bibRefCitation>
).
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also attacks water hyacinth in Florida (
<bibRefCitation id="DBE19866EE8A254C113D273B11A6A802" author="Perkins, BD" journalOrPublisher="Pest Articles and News Summaries" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="304 - 314" title="Arthropods that stress waterhyacinth." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/09670877409411855" volume="20" year="1974">Perkins 1974</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="8911442D6E08C0153DF606436D7C7F72" author="Buckingham, GR" journalOrPublisher="The Coleopterists Bulletin" pageId="65" pageNumber="66" pagination="27 - 33" title="Dyscinetusmorator (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) adults attack waterhyacinth, Eichhorniacrassipes (Pontederiaceae)." volume="43" year="1989">Buckingham and Bennett 1989</bibRefCitation>
). These species are considered scavengers and enhancers of damage started by other arthropods on water hyacinth, though they are known to attack healthy tissues (
<bibRefCitation id="70A71EF7D3FD872AFF02AC39A60B394A" author="Perkins, BD" journalOrPublisher="Pest Articles and News Summaries" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="304 - 314" title="Arthropods that stress waterhyacinth." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/09670877409411855" volume="20" year="1974">Perkins 1974</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="26EB580AE7D6FDE9D47D78E7A8C20FA7" author="Buckingham, GR" journalOrPublisher="The Coleopterists Bulletin" pageId="65" pageNumber="66" pagination="27 - 33" title="Dyscinetusmorator (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) adults attack waterhyacinth, Eichhorniacrassipes (Pontederiaceae)." volume="43" year="1989">Buckingham and Bennett 1989</bibRefCitation>
). Feeding damage on water hyacinth occurs inside petioles, crowns, petiole bases, and submerged roots (
<bibRefCitation id="65285A6CFCF0BC469B9691EA3CEB461A" author="Perkins, BD" journalOrPublisher="Pest Articles and News Summaries" pageId="82" pageNumber="83" pagination="304 - 314" title="Arthropods that stress waterhyacinth." url="https://doi.org/10.1080/09670877409411855" volume="20" year="1974">Perkins 1974</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="5A8746E421A99B759EF7A3951969E953" author="Buckingham, GR" journalOrPublisher="The Coleopterists Bulletin" pageId="65" pageNumber="66" pagination="27 - 33" title="Dyscinetusmorator (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) adults attack waterhyacinth, Eichhorniacrassipes (Pontederiaceae)." volume="43" year="1989">Buckingham and Bennett 1989</bibRefCitation>
).
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Figure 58. Distribution of
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species in North, Central, and South America and the West Indies. Numbers indicate number of taxa per country or region.
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Experiments indicated that
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can survive submerged in water for up to 36 hours (
<bibRefCitation id="321D6790BDB02FABB244642EC9A5BDA2" author="Buckingham, GR" journalOrPublisher="The Coleopterists Bulletin" pageId="65" pageNumber="66" pagination="27 - 33" title="Dyscinetusmorator (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) adults attack waterhyacinth, Eichhorniacrassipes (Pontederiaceae)." volume="43" year="1989">Buckingham and Bennett 1989</bibRefCitation>
). The mechanism allowing for this prolonged submersion is unclear. Air bubbles are visible along the elytral margin and on the metathorax in submerged individuals (
<bibRefCitation id="91DF411450247AB9EFD37A626E8F4001" author="Buckingham, GR" journalOrPublisher="The Coleopterists Bulletin" pageId="65" pageNumber="66" pagination="27 - 33" title="Dyscinetusmorator (Fab.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) adults attack waterhyacinth, Eichhorniacrassipes (Pontederiaceae)." volume="43" year="1989">Buckingham and Bennett 1989</bibRefCitation>
).
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Bates was also observed submerged in association with water hyacinth in
<pageBreakToken id="CA91DB9DD5029422BD17F70F0A55306B" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" start="start">Mexico</pageBreakToken>
(
<bibRefCitation id="21FF0D703C52E286091862B1ACC8DD08" author="Garcia-Rivera, G" journalOrPublisher="Entomological News" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" pagination="63 - 69" title="First record of Dyscinetuslaevipunctatus Bates (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae) in an aquatic environment in Mexico." url="https://doi.org/10.3157/021.125.0112" volume="125" year="2015">
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and Contreras-Ramos 2015
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). Unlike many other genera in the group,
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adults are not known to visit flowers. A Brazilian
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species was reportedly attracted to the floral odors of
<taxonomicName id="82CBA72E0FFA2D4E53B1CE79B21B2D4F" class="Insecta" family="Miridae" genus="Annona" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Annona" order="Hemiptera" pageId="51" pageNumber="52" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Annona</taxonomicName>
sp., although these beetles were not encountered in any inflorescences (
<bibRefCitation id="EA6EDA91F1957E3B6E11689873BA8BA9" author="Gottsberger, G" journalOrPublisher="Entwicklungsgeschichte und Systematik der Planzen" pageId="72" pageNumber="73" pagination="165 - 187" title="Beetle pollination and flowering rhythm of Annona spp. (Annonaceae) in Brazil." volume="167" year="1989">Gottsberger 1989</bibRefCitation>
). This is the only mention of
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floral attraction in the literature.
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species can be recognized by the following combination of characters: 1) dorsal coloration dark piceous to black; 2) body convex, not strongly anteroposteriorly compressed or dorsoventrally flattened; 3) clypeus trapezoidal with apex truncate in dorsal view; 4) frontoclypeal suture complete medially; 5) males with anterolateral
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of the mandibles lacking weak tooth; 6) mandibular molar area with rows of circular micropunctures; 7) mandibular molar area on proximal margin with 2 semicircular depressed pits; 8) galea of maxilla on inner surface with 2 fused basal teeth, 2 free medial teeth, and 2 fused apical teeth (2-2-2 arrangement); 9) pronotum with broadly incomplete beaded basal margin; 10) males and females with 3 protibial teeth on lateral margin, basal tooth not greatly reduced, only slightly removed from the more apical 2 teeth, and oriented laterally; 11) protibial spur straight to weakly deflexed; 12) males with inner protarsal claw enlarged and narrowly cleft at apex; 13) mesocoxae not widely separated, nearly touching; 14) metacoxae on lateral edge with transverse, depressed sulcus; 15) metacoxae with lateral edge perpendicular to ventral surface; 16) meso- and metatibiae with distal, transverse carinae; 17) anterior edge of hindwing distal to apical hinge with erect setae and lacking produced, membranous border; 18) vein RA with single row of pegs proximal to apical hinge; 19) propygidium not expanded, with propygidium and pygidium not fused.
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