Flowering Plants Visited
by Macrosiagon
limbata
Macrosiagon limbata Fabricius: Rhipiphoridae, Coleoptera
(Observations are from Robertson, Lovell, and Wilhelm & Rericha. This beetle lays eggs on flowers [lgf], and its larvae are parasitic on flower-visiting wasps. An alternative spelling for the name of this insect's family is Ripiphoridae.)
Apiaceae: Eryngium yuccifolium lgf (Rb, WR), Oxypolis rigidior sn (Rb); Asclepiadaceae: Asclepias verticillata [plab sn] (Rb); Asteraceae: Arnoglossum plantagineum lgf (WR), Eupatorium perfoliatum lgf (Rb, WR), Eupatorium serotinum lgf (Rb), Parthenium integrifolium lgf (Rb, WR), Solidago sp. (Lv2), Solidago gigantea lgf (WR); Lamiaceae: Monarda punctata lgf (WR), Pycnanthemum pilosum lgf (Rb), Pycnanthemum tenuifolium lgf fq (Rb, WR), Pycnanthemum virginianum lgf (Rb, WR); Nymphaeaceae: Nymphaea tuberosa dead np (Rb)