Euporus
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cerambycidae |
Subfamily: | Cerambycinae |
Genus: | Euporus Audinet-Serville, 1834[1] |
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Euporus is a genus of beetles belonging to the large subfamily Cerambycinae in the family of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae).[1]
Appearance[]
Medium-sized, slender and long-legged, usually shiny and metallic longhorn beetle. The head is slightly snout-shaped and elongated. The antennae are usually longer than the body, and rather thin. The pronotum is rounded without teeth on the sides. The coverts are almost evenly wide. The hind legs are particularly long, the thighs thickened at the tip.
Life cycle[]
The larvae develop in the wood of deciduous trees.
Prevalence[]
The genus is widespread in Africa.
Systematic division[]
- Order Beetle, Coleoptera Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder Polyphaga Emery, 1886
- group (infraorder) Cucujiformia Lameere, 1938
- Superfamily Chrysomeloidea Latreille, 1802 (=Phytophaga)
- Family longhorn beetles, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802
- Subfamily Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
- Tribe Callichromatini Blanchard, 1845
- Genus Euporus Audinet-Serville, 1834
- Subgenus Euporus
- Müller, 1939
- Hope, 1843
- Schmidt, 1922
- Hintz, 1919
- Quedenfeldt, 1883
- Duvivier, 1891
- Burgeon, 1931
- Schmidt, 1922
- Schmidt, 1922
- (Bates, 1879)
- Schmidt, 1922
- Jordan, 1894
- Audinet-Serville, 1834
- (Dalman, 1817)
- Subgenus Schmidt, 1922
- Quedenfeldt, 1882
- (Dalman, 1817)
- Subgenus Schmidt, 1922
- Schmidt, 1922
- Subgenus Schmidt, 1922
- Quedenfeldt, 1882
- Kolbe, 1894
- Schmidt, 1922
- (Aurivillius, 1914)
- Pascoe, 1864
- Gerstäcker, 1884
- (Bates, 1879)
- Subgenus Euporus
- Genus Euporus Audinet-Serville, 1834
- Tribe Callichromatini Blanchard, 1845
- Subfamily Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
- Family longhorn beetles, Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802
- Superfamily Chrysomeloidea Latreille, 1802 (=Phytophaga)
- group (infraorder) Cucujiformia Lameere, 1938
- Suborder Polyphaga Emery, 1886
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Categories:
- Cerambycinae
- Beetles described in 1834
- Beetle genera