Biology:Melasis bupestroides

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Melasis bupestroides
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Melasis bupestroides
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M. bupestroides
Binomial name
Melasis bupestroides
(Linnaeus, 1761) [1]

Melasis bupestroides is a species of false click beetles native to Europe.[2][3]

The species name bupestroides (from the beetle genus Buprestis, and Ancient Greek ειδής eidēs, "like") refers to the species' body shape.[4] Linnaeus's original name for the beetle was Elater buprestoides. The genus name Melasis (from Ancient Greek μέλας mélas, "black") refers to the black color of the member species' body.[5]

Description

The cylindrical beetle is between six and nine millimeters long. The body's greatest width occurs on the leading edge of the scutum.

References

  1. Linnaeus, C., 1761 Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciæ Regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. Distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium, descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. 578 pp. Laurentii Salvii (Stockholm)
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. Norman H. Joy, , 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
  4. Schenkling, Sigmund. "Erklärung der wissenschaftlichen Käfernamen (Art)" (in de). http://www.zeno.org/Naturwissenschaften/M/Schenkling,+Sigmund/Erkl%C3%A4rung+der+wissenschaftlichen+K%C3%A4fernamen/Arten,+Unterarten,+Variet%C3%A4ten,+Aberrationen. 
  5. Schenkling, Sigmund. "Erklärung der wissenschaftlichen Käfernamen (Gattung)" (in de). http://www.zeno.org/Naturwissenschaften/M/Schenkling,+Sigmund/Erkl%C3%A4rung+der+wissenschaftlichen+K%C3%A4fernamen/Gattungen+und+Untergattungen.. 

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