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Monocrepidius

Monocrepidius is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. The genus has often been cited as Conoderus, but of the two names for this genus published simultaneously in 1829, the one selected by the First Reviser under the ICZN was Monocrepidius, rendering Conoderus the junior synonym.

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Length
302 w
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Monocrepidius
Monocrepidius bellus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Elateridae
Tribe: Oophorini
Genus: Monocrepidius
Eschscholtz, 18291
Synonyms
  • Conoderus Eschscholtz, 1829
  • Silene Broun, 1893

Monocrepidius is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. The genus has often been cited as Conoderus, but of the two names for this genus published simultaneously in 1829, the one selected by the First Reviser under the ICZN was Monocrepidius, rendering Conoderus the junior synonym.2

Monocrepidius vespertinus source ↗

Selected species

  • Monocrepidius athoides LeConte, 1863
  • Monocrepidius auritus (Herbst, 1806)
  • Monocrepidius aversus LeConte, 1853
  • Monocrepidius bellus (Say, 1823)
  • Monocrepidius belti (Champion, 1895)
  • Monocrepidius bifoveatus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805)
  • Monocrepidius browni (Knull, 1938)
  • Monocrepidius cairnsensis (Blackburn, 1893)
  • Monocrepidius castaneus (Fabricius, 1792)
  • Monocrepidius concretus (Candèze, 1881)
  • Monocrepidius delauneyi (Fleutiaux, 1911)
  • Monocrepidius delicatus (Fall, 1929)
  • Monocrepidius elegans (Candèze, 1878)
  • Monocrepidius exsul (Sharp, 1877) (pasture wireworm)
  • Monocrepidius falli (Lane, 1956) (southern potato wireworm)
  • Monocrepidius ferruginosus (Fall, 1929)
  • Monocrepidius lenis (Candèze, 1881)
  • Monocrepidius leucophaeatus (Candèze, 1859)
  • Monocrepidius lividus (De Geer, 1774)
  • Monocrepidius nigricollis (Fleutiaux, 1918)
  • Monocrepidius pallipes (Eschscholtz, 1829)
  • Monocrepidius parallelus (Candèze, 1859)
  • Monocrepidius pictus (Candèze, 1859)
  • Monocrepidius poirieri (Chassain, Deknuydt & Romé, 2014)
  • Monocrepidius posticus (Eschscholtz, 1822)
  • Monocrepidius rudis (Brown, 1933)
  • Monocrepidius rufidens (Fabricius, 1801)
  • Monocrepidius scissus Schaeffer, 1909
  • Monocrepidius sericeus (Candèze, 1865)
  • Monocrepidius similis Schaeffer, 1909
  • Monocrepidius suturalis LeConte, 1853
  • Monocrepidius vespertinus (Fabricius, 1801) (tobacco wireworm)
  • Monocrepidius vitraci (Fleutiaux, 1911)
  • Monocrepidius xysticus (Candèze, 1859)
References

References

  1. Eintheilung der Elateriden in Gattungen. JF Eschscholtz - Entomologisches Archiv, 1829
  2. Kundrata R, Kubaczkova M, Prosvirov AS, Douglas HB, Fojtikova A, Costa C, Bousquet Y, Alonso-Zarazaga MA, Bouchard P (2019) World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae. ZooKeys 839: 83–154. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.839.33279
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