Acropteryx
| Acropteryx | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tenebrionidae |
| Subfamily: | Tenebrioninae |
| Tribe: | Acropteronini Doyen, 1989 |
| Genus: | Acropteryx Gistel, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Acropteryx rufipes Gistel, 1831 | |
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Acropteryx is an aberrant genus of darkling beetles (family Tenebrionidae). They are found in the Neotropics and due to their distinctness are usually considered a monotypic tribe Acropteronini within the subfamily of typical darkling beetles, Tenebrioninae.[1][2]
These elongated and slim beetles are suggestive of lizard beetles in appearance. Some earlier authors placed them with these, at that time considered a distinct family Languriidae; nowadays the lizard beetles are recognized as highly apomorphic pleasing fungus beetles and placed in family Erotylidae.[3]
Species
[edit]This genus has been monotypic for most of its existence,[3] but more recently some additional species were moved here:[1][4]
- Acropteryx chabrieri (Fleutiaux & Sallé, 1890)
- Acropteryx crenaticolle (Mäklin, 1862)
- Acropteryx fastigiatum (Mäklin, 1862)
- Acropteryx humile (Mäklin, 1862)
- Acropteryx rufipes Gistel, 1831
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Acropteryx". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
- ↑ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Aalbu, Rolf L.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2021). "Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (1050): 1–633. Bibcode:2021ZooK.1050....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217. hdl:10261/250214. PMC 8328949. PMID 34385881.
- 1 2 Leschen, Richard A.B. & Węgrzynowicz, Piotr (1998): Generic catalogue and taxonomic status of Languriidae (Cucujoidea). Ann.Zool. 48(3/4): 221-243. PDF fulltext
- ↑ Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Aalbu, Rolf L.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; Merkl, Ottó; Davies, Anthony E. (2021-07-26). "Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera)". ZooKeys (1050): 1–633. Bibcode:2021ZooK.1050....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 8328949. PMID 34385881.
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