{"id":179,"date":"2018-07-17T10:37:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/carpophiline-id\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2021-01-20T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:38:21","slug":"carpophilus-antiquus-melsheimer-1844","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/carpophiline-id\/carpophilus-antiquus-melsheimer-1844\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpophilus antiquus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Species Fact Sheet<\/strong>
Carpophilus antiquus <\/em>Melsheimer, 1844<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Figure 1. Male dorsal and ventral habitus<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Diagnosis:<\/strong> Carpophilus antiquus<\/em> specimens are distinguished from other eastern North American species by having the following combination of features: elytra with darker coloration near the apex only (Fig. 1 & 7), and an impunctate area near the center of the mesosternum (Fig. 3). The male metathoracic tibia is abruptly dilated apically (Fig. 5 & 6).<\/p>\n

Distribution: <\/strong>Carpophilus antiquus <\/em>is found in eastern North America from Quebec to Florida and west to Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, and Texas.<\/p>\n

Biology: <\/strong>C. antiquus <\/em>is most commonly associated with corn (Bartelt, Seaton, and Dowd 1993). It has also been collected fallen peaches, rotting melon, under Quercus sp<\/em>. woodchips, under the bark of Pinus sp<\/em>., in traps with banana and fermenting brown sugar, and other rotting fruit (Connell 1956; Price and Young 2006) Larvae illustrated and described by Connell  (1956).<\/p>\n

References:<\/strong>
Bartelt RJ, Seaton KL, Dowd PF (1993) – aggregation pheromone and association with corn
Connell WA (1956) – larvae and adult description, key to larvae and adults, and collection records
Price MB, Young DK (2006) – collection records<\/p>\n\n\n

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