Buethobius oabitus

Buethobius oabitus Chamberlin, 1911

Buethobius oabitus Chamberlin 1911a: 34; Mercurio 2010: 44 (complete references)

From two places in Mississippi. To my knowledge, this species has never been collected again; the Chamberlin collection in USNM includes no specimens aside from the holotype. This is unfortunate since B. oabitus is the type species of the genus. Yellow trunk, head orange; body 10 – 12 mm long. Antennae more than half the body length, 36 articles, coxosternal teeth 3+3, coxal pores 3, 3, 3, 3 or 4, 4, 4, 4 (Chamberlin, 1912). The length of the antennae relative to the body length is not a particularly reliable character, since the trunk of a lithobiomorph can telescope or extend to a substantial degree.