Pharaxonotha floridana
| Pharaxonotha floridana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Erotylidae |
| Genus: | Pharaxonotha |
| Species: | P. floridana |
| Binomial name | |
| Pharaxonotha floridana (Casey, 1890) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pharaxonotha zamiae Blake, 1928 | |
Pharaxonotha floridana is a species of pleasing fungus beetle in the family Erotylidae.[1][2][3] It has been reported only from Florida.[4]
This beetle critically depends on the coontie cycad (Zamia integrifolia) to survive; while it eats some of the cycad's pollen, it also pollinates the cycad. Even though the relationship is not a symbiosis in the strict sense (because the beetles slightly damage the cycads) and not a two-way obligatory mutualism either (because Z.integrifolia also employs the belid weevil Rhopalotria slossoni as pollinator), the survival of P.floridana and Z.integrifolia is still closely connected.[5]
References
- ↑ "Pharaxonotha floridana Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ↑ "Pharaxonotha floridana". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ↑ "Pharaxonotha floridana species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ↑ Pakaluk, James (1988). "Review of the New World Species of Pharaxonotha Reitter (Coleoptera:Languriidae)". Revista de Biología Tropical. 36 (2B): 449.
- ↑ "Behavior and Feeding of Two Beetle Pollinators of Zamia integrifolia". Florida Entomologist. 106. September 2023. doi:10.1653/024.106.0309.
External links
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