Autocrates (beetle)
| Autocrates | |
|---|---|
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| Autocrates aeneus (male) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Superfamily: | Tenebrionoidea |
| Family: | Trictenotomidae |
| Genus: | Autocrates Thomson, 1860 |
Autocrates is a genus of beetles in the Trictenotomidae family with species across the Indomalayan realm. They are sexually dimorphic with males having longer and more sinuate mandibles.[1]
Species
Six species have been described:[2][3]
- Autocrates aeneus (Westwood 1846) - Himalayas from India to China
- Autocrates ivanovi Drumont, 2016 - Vietnam[4]
- Autocrates lini sp. nov., 2022 - China[5]
- Autocrates maqueti Drumont, 2006 - China, Korea
- Autocrates oberthueri Vuillet, 1910 - Tibet, China
- Autocrates vitalisi Vuillet, 1912 - Vietnam, Cambodia, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), Yunnan), Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore.
- Autocrates soni Cho et Kim, 2024 - Vietnam[6]
References
- ↑ Lin, Meiying; Drumont, Alain; Yang, Xingke (2007). "The genus Autocrates Thomson in China: occurrence and geographical distribution of species (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae)" (PDF). Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 77: 147–156.
- ↑ Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz.
- ↑ Descarpentries, André; Villiers, André (1973). "Notes sur le genre Autocrates [Col. Trictenotomidae]". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 78: 253–256.
- ↑ Drumont, Alain (2016). "Nouvelle contribution à l'étude du genre Autocrates Thomson, 1860 avec la description d'une nouvelle espèce du Vietnam: A. ivanovi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae)" (PDF). Revista gaditana de Entomología. 7 (1): 25–36.
- ↑ Hu, Fang-Shuo; Drumont, Alain; Telnov, Dmitry (2022). "A New Autocrates J. Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae) from Dayaoshan, S China: The Importance of Biodiversity Refugia". Annales Zoologici. 72 (3): 371–388.
- ↑ Cho, Hee-Wook; Kim, Kang-Rae (2024). "A new species of Autocrates (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae) revealed by DNA barcoding and morphological evidence". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 64 (2): 269–276.