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We recently came across a specimen representing a new beetle family for the collection – Belidae!\u00a0 It was collected in February of this year from a Malaise Trap in a Sawgrass\/Red Maple wetland called the Mackay Tract, located across the street from campus.<\/p>\n

\"Rhopalotria\"<\/p>\n

\"R.<\/a>The family Belidae is represented in the United States by two species, both only occuring\u00a0in Florida.\u00a0 Rhopalotria mollis<\/i> (Sharp) is adventive and feeds on non-native cycads.\u00a0 The specimen we collected was Rhopalotria slossoni<\/i>\u00a0(Schaeffer), a native species that feeds on coontie, Zamia integrifolia<\/i> Linn.\u00a0 While both of these species feed on the cones of their host plants, they are also responsible for pollination.<\/p>\n

This specimen represents a Northern range expansion of R. slossoni<\/i>, previously found only in South Florida.\u00a0 The increasing popularity of using coontie as an ornamental in Central Florida might explains this.\u00a0 However, the other known pollinator of coontie, the languriid beetle Pharaxonotha floridana<\/i> (Casey), has a distribution that ranges into Northern Florida, and is locally abundant here in Central Florida.\u00a0 This begs the question, why has P. floridana<\/i> been seemingly so much more successful than R. slossoni<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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