| Autocrates | |
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| Autocrates aeneus (male) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| 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.
Species
Six species have been described:
- Autocrates aeneus (Westwood 1846) - Himalayas from India to China
- Autocrates ivanovi Drumont, 2016 - Vietnam
- Autocrates lini sp. nov., 2022 - China
- 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, West Malaysia, Myanmar
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.
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