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Elonus
Elonus basalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Superfamily:	Tenebrionoidea
Family:	Aderidae
Genus:	Elonus Casey, 1895

Elonus is a genus of ant-like leaf beetles in the family Aderidae. There are about seven described species in Elonus in North America.

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Elonus:

• Elonus basalis (LeConte, 1855)
• Elonus chisosensis Werner, 1993
• Elonus excavatus Werner, 1993
• Elonus gruberi Gompel, 2017
• Elonus hesperus Werner, 1990
• Elonus nebulosus (LeConte, 1875)
• Elonus simplex Werner, 1993

Further reading

• Werner, Floyd G. (1993). "The Nearctic species of Elonus (Coleoptera: Aderidae)" (PDF). Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 99 (4): 245–264. doi:10.1155/1992/97483.
• Gompel, Nicolas (2017). "A review of North American Elonus species, with description of E. gruberi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Aderidae)". Zootaxa. 4338 (3): 533–545. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.8. PMID 29245717.
• Kubisz, Daniel; Iwan, Dariusz; Tykarski, Piotr (2014). Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis. University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation. ISBN 978-83-935107-9-5.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.

External links

• Media related to Elonus at Wikimedia Commons