Aphelocerus acanthus, OPITZ, 2005

OPITZ, WESTON, 2005, Classification, Natural History, And Evolution Of The Genus Aphelocerus Kirsch (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (293), pp. 1-128 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)293<0001:CNHAEO>2.0.CO;2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E787FE-9915-1174-FFD3-FCCAFF03FBAA

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scientific name

Aphelocerus acanthus
status

 

acanthus group

These beetles are characterized by the extensive development of the elytral middiscal setal tuft. The setal tuft reaches its highest development in the members of this group; it extends from the sutural margin to the epipleural margin (fig. 38). Collectively, the members of this group have a distribution that ranges from southern Mexico to Argentina.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cleridae

Genus

Aphelocerus

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