Metascelis
| Metascelis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Melolonthinae |
| Tribe: | Systellopini |
| Genus: | Metascelis Westwood, 1842 |
| Species: | M. flexilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Metascelis flexilis Westwood, 1842 | |
Metascelis is a genus of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.[1] It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Metascelis flexilis, which is thought to originate from the Nepal-India border area.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]Westwood described this species in 1842. The type specimen was in the collection of the Linnaean Society of London. It is no longer in that collection. A specimen labelled as M. flexilis is in the collection of the ZMHU. Sharp treated M. flexilis as a synonym of Chilodiplus albertisii in 1877. But Allsopp disputed this in his 1989 revision of the Systellopini tribe. He even concluded that M. flexilis does not belong in this tribe, although it has not been formally reclassified yet.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". gbif.org. Retrieved June 26, 2026.
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Metascelis flexilis at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2025-10-10 XR). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved June 16, 2026.
- ↑ Allsopp, P. G. (1989). "Revision of the Systellopini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 3: 197-227. Retrieved June 26, 2026.