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Scalenus

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Scalenus
Scalenus fasciatipennis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Tribe: Callichromatini
Genus: Scalenus
Gistel, 1848
Synonyms

Colobus Audinet-Serville, 1833 (Unav.)
Coloborhombus Thomson, 1864
Nothopeus Pascoe, 1864

Scalenus is an Old World genus of round-necked longhorn beetles of the subfamily Cerambycinae.

In his 1889 book Darwinism, Alfred Russel Wallace discusses Batesian mimicry with a plate of a Scalenus species (S. fasciatipennis) that closely mimics a wasp.[1]

Species

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Scalenus auricomus (Ritsema, 1890)
Scalenus borneensis Bentanachs & Drouin, 2014
Scalenus cingalensis (White, 1855)
Scalenus fasciatipennis (Waterhouse, 1885)
Scalenus fulvus (Bates, 1879)
Scalenus hefferni Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018
Scalenus hemipterus (Olivier, 1795)
Scalenus kalimantanensis Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018
Scalenus pejchai Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018
Scalenus philippensis Bentanachs & Drouin, 2014
Scalenus sericeus (Saunders, 1853)
Scalenus skalei Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018

Scalenus ysmaeli Hüdepohl, 1987

References

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  1. Wallace, Alfred Russel (1889). Darwinism. London: Macmillan. p. 259.