Contacyphon variegatus

Contacyphon variegatus (aedeagus), see fig. 9 (G, H) in Nyholm (2000)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scirtoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Scirtiformia Superfamilia: Scirtoidea

Familia: Scirtidae
Subfamilia: Scirtinae
Genus: Contacyphon
Species: Contacyphon variegatus

Name

Contacyphon variegatus (Sharp, 1882)

• Type locality: New Zealand: Greymouth.

Synonymy

• Cyphon variegatus Sharp 1882: 87; Broun 1893: 1145 (reprinted excerpt of Sharp 1882); Pic 1914: 37 (catalogue); Nyholm 2000: 62 (prehensor and bursella illustrated); Macfarlane et al. 2011: 420 (catalogue)
  • Contacyphon variegatus — Zwick et al. 2013: 347

References

Primary references

• Sharp, D. 1882. On some New Zealand Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1882 [30(1)]: 73–99. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1882.tb01570.x . BHL. Reference page. 
• Zwick, P., Klausnitzer, B. & Ruta, R. 2013. Contacyphon Gozis, 1886 removed from synonymy (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) to accommodate species so far combined with the invalid name, Cyphon Paykull, 1799. Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 109: 337–353. Reference page.  [conb. nov.: p. 347]

Additional references

• Nyholm, T. 2000. New species, taxonomic notes, and genitalia of New Zealand Cyphon (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). New Zealand Entomologist 22(1): 45–67. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1999.9722054 Reference page.