Horia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Meloidae
Subfamilia: Nemognathinae
Tribus: Horiini
Genus: Horia
Species:
Name

Horia Fabricius, 1787

References
Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa insectorum, sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Vol. 1: 348 pp. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae. BHL Reference page. , 164.

Additional references

Cros, A. 1928: Révision des genres Horia Fabr. et Cissites Latr. (note rectificative et complementaire). Bulletin de la Société Royale Entomologique d'Égypte, 1927: 103–115. [not seen]
Gahan, C.J. 1908: Notes on the coleopterous genera Horia, Fab., and Cissites, Latr., and a list of the described species. Annals and magazine of natural history (8), 2(8): 199–204. DOI: 10.1080/00222930808692469 BHL

Horia is a genus of beetles in the family Meloidae. They are placed in a tribe Horiini which includes two other genera Synhoria and Cissites.[1]
Horia sp. near roepkei

Some species in the genus live in the brood colonies of Xylocopa bees.[2] Horia maculata was introduced to Hawaii to control Xylocopa but the beetles did not establish a stable population.[3]
References

Selander, Richard B. (1991). "On the Nomenclature and Classification of the Meloidae (Coleoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 5 (2): 65–93.
Guilding, L. (1825). "The natural history of Xylocopa teredo and Horia maculata". Transactions of the Linnean Society (in Latin). 14: 313–317.
Clausen, Curtis P. (1940). Entomophagous Insects. New York: McGraw Hill.