Biology:Acalles echinatus
From HandWiki
Short description: Species of beetle
| Acalles echinatus | |
|---|---|
| |
| Imago | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Curculionidae |
| Genus: | Acalles |
| Species: | A. echinatus
|
| Binomial name | |
| Acalles echinatus (Germar, 1824)
| |
| Synonyms[2] | |
| |
Acalles echinatus is species of beetle from the family Curculionidae. It inhabits Europe and the Transcaucasia.[2][3]
Taxonomy
This species was first described in 1824 by Ernst Friedrich Germar under the name Cryptorhynchus echinatus.[1][2] The type locality was indicated as "Carniolia",[1] in the present-day Slovenia.
Acalles echinatus, together with nine other species, forms the echinatus group within the genus Acalles, characterized by a triangular shape edeagusa. Sibling species for A. echinatus are Acalles fallax and Acalles petryszaki.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Germar, Ernst Friedrich (in latin). Insectorum species: novae aut minus cognitae, descriptionibus illustratae. Halle: J.C. Hendelii et filii. p. 278. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.130964. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/225998#page/312/mode/1up.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Acalles (Acalles) echinatus (Germar, 1824)". Fauna Europaea. 2004. https://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:251312.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lachowska, Dorota; Rożek, Maria; Holecovà, Milada (2009). "Chromosomal similarities and differences among three sibling species of the Acalles echinatus group (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae)". Zootaxa 1985 (1): 63–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1985.1.7.
Wikidata ☰ Q15736433 entry
 |  |
