Promecheilidae

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea
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: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Promecheilidae
Genera (8): Chanopterus – Hydromedion – Melytra – Parahelops – Perimylops – Promecheilus – Pseudodarwinella – Sirrhas
[sources: Ukrainsky (2009), Lawrence, Ślipiński & Elgueta (2010: 563)]

Promecheilidae Lacordaire, 1859

Perimylopidae St. George: Perimylops Müller, 1884 [stem = Perimylop-]
Promecheilidae Lacordaire: Promecheilus Solier, in Gay, 1851 [stem = Promecheil-]

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Lawrence, J.F. 1994: The larva of Sirrhas variegatus, sp. nov., with notes on the Perimylopidae, Ulodidae (stat. nov.), Zopheridae and Chalcodryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Invertebrate taxonomy, 8: 329–349. DOI: 10.1071/IT9940329
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Watt, J.C. 1974: Chalcodryidae: a new family of heteromerous beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 4: 19–38. Google books BUGZ