Thanasimodes
Thanasimodes | |
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Thanasimodes robustus in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya | |
T. dorsalis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cleridae |
Subfamily: | Clerinae |
Genus: | Thanasimodes Murray, 1867[1] |
Type species | |
Thanasimodes metallicus Murray, 1867 |
Thanasimodes is a genus of beetles in the subfamily Clerinae.
It was circumscribed by Andrew Murray in 1867.[1]
Species
Extant species include:[2][3][4]
- Thanasimodes cyaneopurpureus (Fairmaire, 1885).[5] Type locality: Mogadishu.[a] Initially placed in Opilo.[b]
- Thanasimodes desertorum (Lesne, 1905).[6] Type locality: Iferouane.[7] Initially placed in Opilio.
- Thanasimodes dorsalis (H. Lucas, 1843)[8] Type locality: the north of Africa.[c] Initially placed in Opilo.
- Thanasimodes gigas (Laporte de Castelnau, 1836).[9] Type locality: Senegal.[d] Initially placed in Notoxus.
- Syn. T. abdominalis (Fairmaire, 1891); T. tropicus (Klug, 1842)
- Thanasimodes insignis (Escalera , 1914).[10] Type locality: Kuraymat, Egypt.[e] Initially placed in Opilo.
- Thanasimodes metallicus Murray, 1867.[1] Type locality: Akwa Akpa.[f]
- Thanasimodes robustus (Boheman, 1851)[11] Type locality: Limpopo River.[g] Initially placed in Opilo.[b]
Fossil species include:[12][13]
- †Thanasimodes jantar Kolibáč, 1997. Type locality: Baltic amber, Russia, dating from the Priabonian.
Species formerly placed in this genus include:
- Menieroclerus nigropiceus (Kuwert, 1893) Martlett and Gerstmeier 2016[4]
Notes
References
- ^ a b c Murray, Andrew (1867). "List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 3. 20 (119): 319–321. doi:10.1080/00222936708646336.
- ^ Schenkling, S. (1910). "Thanasimodes Murr.". Cleridae. Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 23. Berlin: W. Junk. pp. 38–39.
- ^ Löbl, I.; Rolčik, J.; Kolibáč, J.; Gerstmeier, J. (2007). "Family Cleridae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). lateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books. p. 375. doi:10.1163/9789004260894. ISBN 9789004260894.
- ^ a b Bartlett, Justin S.; Gerstmeier, Roland (2016). "Menieroclerus gen. nov.: A new genus for Thanasimodes nigropiceus (Kuwert, 1893) (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)". Zootaxa. 4168 (2): 395–400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.12. PMID 27701345.
- ^ Fairmaire, Léon (1885). "Diagnoses de Coléoptères de l'Afrique orientale". Comptes-rendus des séances de la Société entomologique de Belgique. Sér. 3 (54): 8.
- ^ Lesne, P. (1905). "Un Cléride saharien nouveau (Opilo desertorum nov. sp.)". Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 11 (6): 388–390.
- ^ "Aïr: Iferouane".
- ^ Lucas, H. (1843). "Coléoptères d'Algérie nés à Paris". Revue zoologique. 6: 159.
- ^ de Laporte, F. L. (1836). "Études entomologiques, ou Descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie". Revue entomologique. 4: 42.
- ^ de la Escalera, Manuel Martínez (1914). "Los Coleópteros de Marruercos". Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie Zoológica. 11. Madrid: 249–250.
- ^ Boheman, Carolus H. (1851). "Opilus (Latr.) robustus". Coleoptera: (Buprestides, Elaterides, Cebrionites, [...], Clerii, [...], Hydrophilidae.). Insecta Caffraria annis 1838–1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Vol. 1. Holmia. pp. 485–487.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Kolibáč, Jiří; Huang, Diying (2016). "The oldest known clerid fossils from the Middle Jurassic of China, with a review of Cleridae systematics (Coleoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4). S3. A list of fossils described within the family Cleridae. doi:10.1111/syen.12192. S2CID 89399958.
- ^ "†Thanasimodes jantar Kolibac 1997 (checkered beetle)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
Further reading
- Kolibáč, Jiří (1987). "Morphological comparison of type (or model) genera of the subfamilies of Cleridae (Coleoptera, Cleridae)". Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 77: 103–135.
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