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Genus of beetles

Elateroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Family: Lymexylidae
Genus: Elateroides
Schaeffer, 1766
Synonyms
  • Hylecoetus Latreille, 1806
  • Hylicetus Berthold, 1827 (Lapsus calami)
  • Xylecoethus Gyllenhal, 1827 (Lapsus calami)
  • Hyloceotus Melsheimer, 1853 (Lapsus calami)
  • Hyloecotus Lacordaire, 1857 (Lapsus calami)
  • Hylecerus Jacquelin du Val, 1863 (Lapsus calami)

Elateroides is a genus of rarely found beetles in the family Lymexylidae, containing the following species:

Species

Taxonomy

Nardi 2019 writes (p. 597) "Bollow (1940: 867) described Hylecoetus dermestoides L. ab. nigrocephalus, H. dermestoides L. ab. Reitteri and H. dermestoides L. ab. Stoeckleini from Germany, but they are unavailable infrasubspecific names."

References

  1. Lymexylidae Species List at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 17 May 2012.
  • Nardi, G. 2019. Synonymic notes on European Lymexylidae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4450(4): 597–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.4.11
Taxon identifiers
Elateroides


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