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Brachypterus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Kateretidae
Genus:	Brachypterus Kugelann, 1794

Brachypterus is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae. There are about 18 described species in Brachypterus.

Species

These 18 species belong to the genus Brachypterus:

• Brachypterus aeneomicans Wollaston, 1865
• Brachypterus capensis
• Brachypterus curtulus Wollaston, 1864
• Brachypterus exaratus Dejean, 1836
• Brachypterus fulvipes Erichson, 1843
• Brachypterus glaber (Newman, 1834)
• Brachypterus globularius Murray, 1864
• Brachypterus horii (Hisamatsu, 1976)
• Brachypterus labiatus Erichson, 1843
• Brachypterus longimanus (Wollaston, 1864)
• Brachypterus minutus Dejean, 1836
• Brachypterus rotundicollis Murray, 1864
• Brachypterus schaefferi Grouvelle, 1912
• Brachypterus troglodytes Murray, 1864
• Brachypterus urticae (Fabricius, 1792) (nettle pollen beetle)
• Brachypterus velatus Wollaston, 1863
• Brachypterus viridinitens Har.Lindberg, 1950
• Brachypterus yukikoae (Hisamatsu, 1976)

References

1. "Brachypterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Brachypterus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Brachypterus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Price, Michele B.; Young, Daniel K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi. 20 (1–2): 69–84. ISSN 0749-6737.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.

External links

• Media related to Brachypterus at Wikimedia Commons

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