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Eropterus

Eropterus is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are about 10 described species in Eropterus.

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Eropterus
Eropterus trilineatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Lycidae
Subfamily: Erotinae
Genus: Eropterus
Green, 1951

Eropterus is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae. There are about 10 described species in Eropterus.123

Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Eropterus:

  • Eropterus arculus Green, 1951
  • Eropterus aritai (Sato & Ohbayashi, 1968)
  • Eropterus bilineatus Green, 1951
  • Eropterus flavipennis (Nakane, 1969)
  • Eropterus glebulus
  • Eropterus masumotoi Matsudai, 2011
  • Eropterus ohkurai Matsuda
  • Eropterus rectus Green, 1951
  • Eropterus taiwanus Matsuda
  • Eropterus trilineatus (Melsheimer, 1846)
References

References

  1. "Eropterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. "Eropterus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Green, John Wagener (1951). "The Lycidae of the United States and Canada. III. The tribe Platerodini (in part) (Coleoptera)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 77 (1): 1–20. JSTOR 25077624.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
External links
  • Media related to Eropterus at Wikimedia Commons