Euxestus

Euxestus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Euxestidae
Genus: Euxestus
Wollaston, 1858
Synonyms

Neoplotera Belon, 1879
Tritomidea Motschulsky

Euxestus is a genus of well-polished beetles (family Euxestidae). They have formerly often been placed in the pleasing fungus beetle family (Erotylidae), or in the Cerylonidae (minute bark beetles), before the Euxestidae were recognized as a family of their own, closely related to the Cerylonidae (but also to the ladybeetle family Coccinellidae), but less closely to Erotylidae.[1][2][3][4]

Selected species

Species in genus Euxestus include:

  • Euxestus analis Arrow, 1926
  • Euxestus aneipennis Fauvel, 1903
  • Euxestus erithacus (Chevrolat, 1863) (sometimes in E.parkii)
  • Euxestus hypomelas Arrow, 1926
  • Euxestus minor Blackburn & Sharp, 1885
  • Euxestus parkii Wollaston, 1858 (= E.oblongus)
  • Euxestus phalacroides Wollaston, 1877 (= E.angustus)
  • Euxestus spec Wollaston, 1858
  • Euxestus translucidus Arrow

References

  1. ↑ "Euxestus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ↑ "Euxestus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ↑ Robertson, James; Slipinski, Adam; Moulton, Matthew; Shockley, Floyd; et al. (2015). "Phylogeny and classification of Cucujoidea and the recognition of a new superfamily Coccinelloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)". Systematic Entomology. 40 (4): 745–778. doi:10.1111/syen.12138.

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