Atractocerus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lymexyloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata 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: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Lymexyloidea

Familia: Lymexylidae
Subfamilia: Atractocerinae
Genus: Atractocerus
Species: ?A. brasiliensis – A. brevicornis – ?A. reversus

Name

Atractocerus Palisot de Beauvois, 1801: 3

Type species: Atractocerus necydaloides Palisot de Beauvois, 1801 [= Necydalis brevicornis Linnaeus, 1767].

Synonyms

• Macrogaster Thunberg, 1805: 281
  • Type species: Lymexylon abbreviatus Fabricius, 1787 [= Necydalis brevicornis Linnaeus, 1767].

References

Primary references

• Thunberg, C.P. 1805. [Four new genera (in German, no title)]. Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 29: 281–282. Full volume (Online).

Additional references

• Kurosawa, Y. 1985. Revisional notes on the family Lymexylonidae (Coleoptera) in eastern and southeastern Asia. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A) 11(2): 109–119. PDF.
• Paulus, H.F. 2004. Urtea graeca nov. gen. et nov. spec., der erste Vertreter der tropischen Atractocerinae in Europa, sowie eine Beschreibung von Hymaloxylon aspoecki nov. spec. aus Yunnan (China) (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Lymexylidae, Atractocerinae nov. status) [Urtea graeca nov. gen. et nov. spec., the first European representative of the tropical Atractocerinae, as well as a description of Hymaloxylon aspoecki nov. spec. from China (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Lymexylidae, Atractocerinae nov. status).] In: Entomologie und Parasitologie - Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Horst Aspöck. Denisia 13: 277–290. PDF (Zobodat). Page scans (zin.ru). Reference page. 
• Wheeler, Q.D. 1986. Revision of the genera of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 183(2): 113–210. hdl: 2246/960 . Reference page.