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Entelopes shelfordi

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Species of beetle

Entelopes shelfordi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Entelopes
Species: E. shelfordi
Binomial name
Entelopes shelfordi
Aurivillius, 1923

Entelopes shelfordi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1923 based on a description and illustration by Robert Walter Campbell Shelford in 1902. It is known from Borneo.

Shelford wrote that this species mimicked the species Metrioidea apicalis in the family Galerucidae.

References

  1. Aurivillius, Chr. (1923). "Entelopes Guér.". In Junk, W.; Schenkling, S. (eds.). Cerambycidae: Lamiinae II. Coleopterorm Catalogus. Vol. 74. Berlin: W. Junk. p. 492.
  2. BioLib.cz - Entelopes shelfordi. Retrieved on 8 September 2014.
  3. Shelford, R. (1902). "Observations on some Mimetic Insects and Spiders from Borneo and Singapore". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2 (15): 244.

Further reading

Taxon identifiers
Entelopes shelfordi


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