Biology:Cordylospasta

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Cordylospasta
Cordylospasta opacum.jpg
Female (upper) and male (lower) individuals of Cordylospasta opaca
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Meloidae
Subfamily: Meloinae
Tribe: Eupomphini
Genus: Cordylospasta
Horn, 1875

Cordylospasta is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are at least two described species in Cordylospasta.[1][2][3]

Species

These two species belong to the genus Cordylospasta:

References

Further reading

  • Pinto, John D. (1972). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Cordylospasta (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with an analysis of geographic variation in C. opaca". The Canadian Entomologist 104 (8): 1161–1180. doi:10.4039/Ent1041161-8. 
  • Pinto, J. D.; Bologna, M. A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History 33 (4): 569–620. doi:10.1080/002229399300254. 
  • Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2481973 entry