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Calopteron

Calopteron is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Lycidae
Tribe: Calopterini
Genus: Calopteron
Laporte, 1838
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Calopteron is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae.

They are toxic and have aposematic coloration. Some species of moths are mimics (Lycomorpha pholus, Pyromorpha dimidiata).1

There are about 13 described species in Calopteron.231

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Calopteron:

  • Calopteron anxium Bourgeois, 1879
  • Calopteron cyanipenne Pic, 1922
  • Calopteron discrepans (Newman, 1838) (banded net-winged beetle)
  • Calopteron leovazquezae Zaragoza-Caballero, 1996
  • Calopteron megalopteron LeConte, 1861
  • Calopteron quadraticollle Taschenberg, 1874
  • Calopteron reticulatum (Fabricius, 1775) (banded net-wing)
  • Calopteron scenicum Bourgeois, 1889
  • Calopteron serratum (L., 1758)
  • Calopteron terminale (Say, 1823) (end band net-wing)
  • Calopteron terminatum Latreille, 1833
  • Calopteron tricolor Olivier, 1790
  • Calopteron tropicum (L., 1764)
References

References

  1. "Calopteron Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
  2. "Calopteron". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-22.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
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