Mylabris uhagonii

The beetle

Beetles are the largest insect order. The hard forewings (elytra) cover the flight wings; larvae and adults often eat different things.

An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.

Range and habitat

Just over half of the specimens (118) were collected in eleven locations in the Community of Madrid and most of the captures are restricted to the period between 1906 and 1916. The last specimen was collected in Getafe in 1956, and the rest were all collected before 1940.​ Today there are several initiatives to try to locate a specimen or request the official declaration of Extinction by the International Union for The Iberian Mascaflor is a polyphagous beetle of the Meloidae family endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.

GBIF currently lists 57 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Life history

Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.

In crisis

It is pending being officially declared extinct, since the last specimen was collected in 1956. ​ of Nature.

Mylabris uhagonii is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the Spanish Wikipedia article on Mylabris uhagonii, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q127524156 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.