Melalgus
Melalgus | |
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Melalgus batillus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Bostrichidae |
Subfamily: | Polycaoninae |
Genus: | Melalgus Dejean, 1833 |
Melalgus is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melalgus.[1][2][3][4]
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Melalgus femoralis
Species[]
These 25 species belong to the genus Melalgus:
- (Lesne, 1911)
- (Lesne, 1902)
- (Lesne, 1911)
- (Lesne, 1906)
- Melalgus confertus (LeConte, 1866) (branch and twig borer)
- (Lesne, 1911)
- (Lesne, 1911)
- (LeConte, 1858)
- (Lesne, 1899)
- (Fabricius, 1792)
- (Fabricius, 1798)
- (Blanchard, 1843)
- (Lesne, 1906)
- Chûjô, 1973
- (Lesne, 1911)
- (Fall, 1901)
- (Lesne, 1895)
- (Lesne, 1925)
- Melalgus plicatus (LeConte, 1874)
- (Blanchard, 1843)
- (Lesne, 1937)
- (Lesne, 1897)
- (Lesne, 1911)
- (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
- (Lesne, 1913)
References[]
- ^ "Melalgus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Melalgus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Melalgus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ Zahradník, Petr; Háva, Jiří (2014). "Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia)". Zootaxa. 3754 (4): 301–52. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1. PMID 24869695.
Further reading[]
- Solomon, J. D. (1995). "Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs". USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook.
- Fisher, W. S. (1950). "A revision of the North American species of beetles belonging to the family Bostrichidae". United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication (698): 1–157. hdl:2027/uva.x030450778.
- Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN 9788392618218.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
- Arango, Rachel A.; Young, Daniel K. (2012). Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) (PDF). General Technical Report. Vol. FPL–GTR–209. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
External links[]
Media related to Melalgus at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Bostrichidae
- Bostrichoidea stubs