Elenchus

Elenchus koebelei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Stylopoidea

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: Strepsiptera Subordo: Stylopidia Superfamilia: Stylopoidea

Familia: Elenchidae
Genus: Elenchus
Species: E. butzei – E. delicatus – E. eastopi – E. falcipennis – E. globulosus – E. japonicus – E. koebelei – E. leptodelphaxi – E. lindbergi – E. maorianus – E. melanias – E. mexicanus – E. perkinsi – E. perkinsianus – E. solomonensis – E. spangleri – E. templetonii – E. tenuicornis – E. toyaphagus – E. varleyi

Name

Elenchus Curtis, 1831: 385

Type species: Elenchus walkeri Curtis, 1831 [= Stylops tenuicornis Kirby, 1815], by original designation.

Synonyms

• Mecynocera Pierce, 1908: 81 [junior homonym of Mecynocera Thompson, 1888 (Crustacea)]
  • Type species: Mecynocera koebelei Pierce, 1908, by original designation.
• Elenchoides Pierce, 1909: 167
  • Type species: Elenchoides perkinsi Pierce, 1909, by original designation.
• Liburnelenchus Pierce, 1918: 481 [new name for Mecynocera Pierce, 1908]
• Elenchinus Pierce, 1918: 481
  • Type species: Elenchinus heidemanni Pierce, 1918 [= Mecynocera koebelei Pierce, 1908], by original designation.
• Pseudelenchus Ogloblin, 1925: 173
• Sogatelenchus Pierce, 1961: 467
  • Type species: Sogatelenchus mexicanus Pierce, 1961, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Curtis, J. 1831. British Entomology, being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland; containing coloured figures from nature of the most rare and beautiful species, and in many instances of the plant upon which they are found. Vol. III. Dermaptera. Dictyoptera. Orthoptera. Strepsiptera. Hymenoptera, Part I. - printed for the author (London) BHL Reference page. 
• Pierce, W.D. 1908. A preliminary review of the classification of the order Strepsiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 9: 75–85. BHL.
• Pierce, W.D. 1909. A monographic revision of the twisted winged insects comprising the order Strepsiptera Kirby. Bulletin (United States National Museum) 66: 1–232. BHL.
• Pierce, W.D. 1918. The comparative morphology of the order Strepsiptera together with records and descriptions of insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54: 391–501. BHL.
• Pierce, W.D. 1961. A new genus and species of strepsipteran parasitic on a leafhopper vector of a virus disease of rice and other Gramineae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 54(4): 467–474. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/54.4.467 .

Additional references

• Cook, J.L. 2019. Annotated catalog of the order Strepsiptera of the World. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 145(2): 121–267. DOI: 10.3157/061.145.0202 . PDF. Reference page.