Mecas cana

Mecas cana is the scientific name of a group -also called lamiines or flat-faced longhorned beetles-

Mecas cana (Newman, 1840)

E. Newman is the author of the original taxon.

The type specimen used for original description is cited from Florida.

Mecas cana (Newman, 1840) is the full name of the group-species in the taxonomic classification system.

The species divided into 2 subspecies, is combined with the genus Mecas ranked in the tribe Saperdini.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
	~1,200,000 sp.
phylum
Arthropoda
	~1,000,000 sp.
class
Insecta
	~830,000 sp.
order
Coleoptera
	~350,000 sp.
family
Cerambycidae
	~35,000 sp.
subfamily
Lamiinae
	21,959 sp/ssp.
tribe
Saperdini
	2,645 sp/ssp.
genus
Mecas
	18 sp/ssp.
species
cana
2 subsp.

Region

World [2]

Distribution for subspecies of Mecas cana

Group

cana [2]

Subgroup of

Subdivided into 2 subspecies

List of species

2 subspecies

Mecas cana cana (Newman, 1840)
Mecas cana saturnina (LeConte, 1859)

Taxa, synonyms

3 taxa refer to Mecas cana

Saperda cana Newman, 1840 [ type locality : USA, Florida, St. John's Bluff ]
Stenostola saturnina LeConte, 1859 [ type locality : USA, Kansas ]
Mecas brevicollis Casey, 1913 [ type locality : USA, Kansas ]

Bibliography

Some citations found in the bibliography excluding lists and catalogs except with nomenclatural act or image or data

Saperda cana Newman • The Entomologist • 1840 • 1 : 12 [ nov loc ]
Stenostola saturnina LeConte • Smithson. Contr. Knowl. • 1859 • 2 (6) : 21 [ nov loc ]
Mecas saturnina ; Planchard • Entomol. Amer. • 1887 • 3 (5) : 86
Mecas cana ; Gahan • Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. • 1888 • 15 : 300
Mecas brevicollis Casey • Mem. Coleopt. • 1913 • 4 : 362 [ nov loc ]
Mecas saturnina ; Aurivillius • Junk-Schenkling, Col. Cat. • 1923 • 74 : 539 [ loc ]
Mecas (Mecas) cana ; Chemsak & Linsley • Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. • 1973 • ser. 5, 39 (12) : 177
Mecas (Mecas) cana cana ; Chemsak & Linsley • Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. • 1973 • ser. 5, 39 (12) : 178 [ loc ]
Mecas (Mecas) cana saturnina ; Chemsak & Linsley • Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. • 1973 • ser. 5, 39 (12) : 179 [ loc ]
Mecas cana saturinina ; Turnbow & Franklin • J. Ga. Ent. Soc. • 1980 • 15 (3) : 346 [ loc ]
Mecas cana saturnina ; Rice & Enns • Trans. Missouri Acad. Sci. • 1981 • 15 : 105
Mecas cana cana ; Linsley & Chemsak • Univ. Calif. Press • 1997 • 117 : 394
Mecas (Mecas) cana saturnina ; Heffern • Contr. C.P. Gillette Mus. Arthr. Div. Dept. • 1998 : 22 [ loc ]
Mecas (Mecas) cana saturnina ; Schiefer • Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. • 1998 • 124 (2) : 127 [ loc ]
Mecas (Mecas) cana saturnina ; MacRae & Rice • The Coleopts. Bull. • 2007 • 61 (2) : 255 [ loc ]
Mecas saturnina ; Slipinski & Escalona • CSIRO Publ. • 2013 • 1 : 252, 373 [ ill ]
Mecas (Mecas) cana saturnina ; Garcia Morales & al. • Biod. Tamaulipeca • 2014 • 2 (2) : 110 [ loc ]
Mecas (Mecas) cana cana ; Klingeman & al. • Florida Entomol. • 2017 • 100 (2) : 299 [ loc ]

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