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Diplopoda - Microcoryphia

 Orthoptera - Blattaria - Dermaptera - Hemiptera - Homoptera

 Coleoptera - Lepidoptera - Hymenoptera

Area Arthropod Lists

The following thumbnail images are the product of on going invertebrate surveys in typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat.

Results from 2010 Suverys - Results from 2011 Surveys

Diplopoda - Millipedes

Microcoryphia - Bristletails

Phasmida - Walkingsticks 

Orthoptera - Grasshoppers, Katydids, Crickets

Tettigoniidae - Katydids

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Blattaria - Cockroaches

Dermaptera - Earwigs

Hemiptera - True Bugs

• Suborder Heteroptera (Hemiptera)

Tingidae - Lace Bugs

 

Miridae - Plant Bugs

• Mirinae

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• Orthotylinae

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• Undetermined Subfamily
  

Nabidae - Damsel Bugs

Reduviidae - Assassin Bugs

 

Lygaeidae - Seed Bugs

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Aradidae - Flat Bugs

Coreidae - Leaf-footed Bugs

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Rhopalidae - Scentless Plant Bugs

Pentatomidae - Stink Bugs

• Asopinae

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• Pentatominae

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• Suborder Auchenorrhyncha - Cicadas and Hoppers (Homoptera)

Membracidae - Treehoppers

 

 

Cercopidae - Spittlebugs

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Cicadellidae - Leafhoppers

 

 

 

Acanaloniidae - Acanaloniid Planthoppers

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Flatidae - Flatid Planthoppers

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Issidae - Issid Planthoppers

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• Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Homoptera)

Coleoptera - Beetles

Carabidae - Ground Beetles

• Harpalinae

 

 

 

• Scaritinae

Staphylinidae - Rove Beetles

SCARABAEOIDEA

Scarabaeidae - Scarab Beetles

• Aphodiinae - Aphodiine Dung Beetles

• Cetoniinae - Fruit and Flower Chafers

• Melolonthinae - June Bugs

 

 

BUPRESTOIDEA

Buprestidae - Metallic Wood-boring Beetles

• Agrilinae

• Buprestinae 

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Polycestinae

ELATEROIDEA

Elateridae - Click Beetles

 

 

Lampyridae - Fireflies

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Cantharidae - Soldier Beetles

 

BOSTRICHOIDEA

Dermestidae - Skin Beetles

Bostrichidae - Horned Powder-post Beetles

 

Family Anobiidae - Death-watch and Spider Beetles

CLEROIDEA

Cleridae - Checkered Beetles

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Melyridae - Soft-winged Flower Beetles

 

CUCUJOIDEA

Nitidulidae - Sap-feeding Beetles

Coccinellidae - Lady Beetles

•  Chilocorinae

• Coccinellinae

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• Scymninae

 

 

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TENEBRIONOIDEA

Melandryidae - False Darkling Beetles

Mordelidae - Tumbling Flower Beetles

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Tenebrionidae - Darkling Beetles

 

 

Oedemeridae - False Blister Beetles

Meloidae - Blister Beetles

Scraptiidae - False Flower Beetles

CHRYSOMELOIDEA

Cerambycidae - Long-horned Beetles

• Lepturinae - Flower Longhorns

• Cerambycinae

 

• Lamiinae - Flat-Faced Longhorns

 

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Chrysomelidae - Leaf Beetles

• Cassidinae - Tortoise Beetles and Hispines
  

• Chrysomelinae -Broad-shouldered Leaf Beetles

• Galerucinae - Skeletonizing leaf beetles

• Alticini - Flea Beetles

 

 

• Eumolpinae - Oval Leaf Beetles

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• Cryptocephalinae - The Casebearers or Cylindrical leaf beetles

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CURCULIONOIDEA

Anthribidae - Fungus Weevils

 

Attelabidae - Leaf Rolling Weevils

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Brentidae - Straight-snouted Weevils

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Curculionidae - Weevils

• Curculioninae

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• Baridinae

 

• Entiminae - Broad-nosed Weevils

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Lepidoptera - Moths and Butterflies

Mike Quinn's Texas Moths - Moth Photographers Group

Superfamily Gelechioidea

Gelechiidae - Twirler Moths

Superfamily Tortricoidea

Tortricidae - Tortricid Moths

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Superfamily Papilionoidea

Papilionidae - Swallowtails

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Pyralidae - Pyralid Moths

Superfamily Geometroidea

Geometridae - Inchworm Moths

• Ennominae

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Superfamily Bombycoidea

Lasiocampidae - Tent Caterpillar and Lappet Moths

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Superfamily Noctuoidea

Erebidae

• Arctiinae - Tiger and Lichen Moths

Noctuidae - Owlet Moths

• Acronictinae

  

• Agaristinae

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• Amphipyrinae

• Cuculliinae

• Noctuinae - Cutworm or Dart Moths

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Notodontidae - Prominent Moths

• Heterocampinae

 

 

 

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• Notodontinae

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• Phalerinae

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Hymenoptera - Wasps, Bees, Ants

Suborder Symphyta - Sawflies

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Superfamily Chrysidoidea

Dryinidae - Pincher Wasps

Superfamily Tiphioidea

Mutillidae - Velvet Ants

Superfamily Formicoidea

Formicidae - Ants 

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Austin-area Arthropod Lists and References

Arthropods Collected from Oaks, Elm and Juniper in Western Travis Co., TX

Total taxa: 14 orders, 138 families, 473 genera, ~1600 species/subspecies

• Quinn, M.A. 2000. Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.

Faunal and Floral Species Lists - Brackenridge Field Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin

• Moth list includes over 1200 species! (Eight new moth species were described from this location.)
  • The Brackenridge Field Laboratory moth collection was curated and compiled by James Gillaspy. The collection is based largely on his work at BFL (1992-97) supplemented by the earlier species of L.E. Gilbert, Tim Friedlander, Allen C. Hook, C. Riley Nelson, and others. Determinations were made by Edward C. Knudson, Texas Lepidoptera Survey, and other United States and Canadian systematists.

Valerie's Austin Bug Collection - Spiders - Insects

• This is an essential site for identifying arthropods in central Texas.

Primary Literature:

Arnett, Jr. R.H., and M.C .Thomas (editors). 2000. American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. xvi + 443 pp.

Arnett, Jr. R.H., M.C Thomas and 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.

Clark, S.M., D.G. LeDoux, T.N. Seeno, E.G. Riley, A.J. Gilbert & J.M. Sullivan. 2004. Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae exclusive of Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Gordon, R.D. 1985. The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93(1): 1-912.

Henry, T.J., and R.C. Froeschner (editors). 1988. Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs, of Canada and the Continental United States. E. J. Brill, New York. xix + 958 pp.

Leng, C.W. 1920. Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr., Mount Vernon, NY. x + 470 pp.

Lingafelter, S.W. 2007. Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States, Special Publication No. 3. Coleopterists Society. 208 pp.

Nelson, G.H., G.C. Walters, Jr., R.D. Haines & C.L. Bellamy. 2008. A catalog and bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico. The Coleopterists Society, Special Publication No. 4, pp. iv + 1-274.

Quinn, M.A. 2000. Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.

Riley, E.G., S.M. Clark, and T.N. Seeno. 2003. Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 1, 290 pp.

Wagner, D.L. 2005. Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 496 pp., 1,200+ color photos.

Dec. 22, 2011 © Mike Quinn / Texas Entomology