Apteropilo
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| Taxonavigation: Cleroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Cleridae
Subfamiliae: Enopliinae
Genus: Apteropilo
Species: A. chrysocome – A. clarinotus – A. humerofuscus – A. pictipes – A. raldae – A. volans
[list of species after Bartlett (2009)]
Name[edit]
Apteropilo Lea, 1908
Gender[edit]
masculine?
Synonyms[edit]
- Pylusopsis Elston, 1929 [Bartlett, 2009: 43 (syn. n.)]
Type species[edit]
- Apteropilo Lea: Apteropilo pictipes Lea, 1908, by monotypy
- Pylusopsis Elston: Pylusopsis chrysocome Elston, 1929, by monotypy
Placement in Enopliinae[edit]
- 'Despite the recently proposed synonymy of Enopliinae, Tarsosteninae and Epiphloeinae with Korynetinae (Kolibáč 1997), Apteropilo is classified herein as Enopliinae due to sharing with several typical New World enopliine genera (i.e. Corinthiscus Fairmaire & Germain, Exochonotus and Neopylus) characters relating to the form of the pronotal hind angle (see Solervicens 2005), the lateral prothoracic tubercules, and antennal form. Unless subsequent revision of higher taxa demonstrates otherwise, this classification for Apteropilo appears the most appropriate' (Bartlett, 2009: 43)
References[edit]
- Bartlett, J.S. 2009: Taxonomic revision of Apteropilo Lea, 1908 (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Zootaxa, 2200: 41–53. Abstract & excerpt PDF
- Elston, A.H. 1929: Australian Coleoptera. Part VI. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 53: 347–352. PDF
- Kolibáč, J. 1997(1996): Classification of the subfamilies of Cleridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Acta Musei Moraviae, scientiae naturales (Brno), 81: 307–361.
- Lea, A.M. 1908: The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.), 20 (2): 143–207. Internet Archive Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Solervicens, J.A. 2005: A prothoracic character that defines the subfamily Korynetinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). New Zealand entomologist, 28: 49–54. Abstract PDF