Biology:Thanasimodes

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Thanasimodes
Thanasimodes robustus in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya
T. dorsalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Superfamily:
Cleroidea
Family:
Cleridae
Subfamily:
Clerinae
Genus:
Thanasimodes

Murray, 1867[1]
Type species
Thanasimodes metallicus
Murray, 1867

Thanasimodes is a genus of beetles in the subfamily Clerinae.

It was circumscribed by Andrew Murray in 1867.[1]

Species

Extant species include:[2][3][4]

  • Thanasimodes cyaneopurpureus (Fairmaire, 1885).[5] Type locality: Mogadishu.[lower-alpha 1] Initially placed in Opilo.[lower-alpha 2]
  • Thanasimodes desertorum (Pierre Lesne (fr), 1905).[6] Type locality: Iferouane.[7] Initially placed in Opilio.
  • Thanasimodes dorsalis (H. Lucas, 1843)[8] Type locality: the north of Africa.[lower-alpha 3] Initially placed in Opilo.
    • Syn. T. luteofasciatus Pic 1932
  • Thanasimodes gigas (Laporte de Castelnau, 1836).[9] Type locality: Senegal.[lower-alpha 4] Initially placed in Notoxus.
    • Syn. T. abdominalis (Fairmaire, 1891); T. tropicus (Klug, 1842)
  • Thanasimodes insignis (Manuel Martínez de la Escalera (es), 1914).[10] Type locality: Kuraymat, Egypt.[lower-alpha 5] Initially placed in Opilo.
  • Thanasimodes metallicus Murray, 1867.[1] Type locality: Akwa Akpa.[lower-alpha 6]
  • Thanasimodes robustus (Boheman, 1851)[11] Type locality: Limpopo River.[lower-alpha 7] Initially placed in Opilo.[lower-alpha 2]

Fossil species include:[12][13]

Species formerly placed in this genus include:

  • Menieroclerus nigropiceus (Kuwert, 1893) Martlett and Gerstmeier 2016[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Makdischu".
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Written Opilus instead of Opilo in the initial description.
  3. ↑ "Du nord de l'Afrique".
  4. ↑ "Sénégal".
  5. ↑ "El Kureimat".
  6. ↑ "Old Calabar".
  7. ↑ "In tractibus fluvii Limpoponis".

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Murray, Andrew (1867). "List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 3 20 (119): 319–321. doi:10.1080/00222936708646336. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22222791. 
  2. ↑ Schenkling, S. (1910). "Thanasimodes Murr.". Cleridae. Coleopterorum Catalogus. 23. Berlin: W. Junk. pp. 38–39. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10060533. 
  3. ↑ Löbl, I.; Rolčik, J.; Kolibáč, J.; Gerstmeier, J. (2007). "Family Cleridae Latreille, 1802". in Löbl, I.; Smetana, A.. lateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books. p. 375. doi:10.1163/9789004260894. ISBN 9789004260894. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bartlett, Justin S.; Gerstmeier, Roland (2016). "Menieroclerus gen. nov.: A new genus for Thanasimodes nigropiceus (Kuwert, 1893) (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)". Zootaxa 4168 (2): 395–400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.12. PMID 27701345. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308103968. 
  5. ↑ Fairmaire, Léon (1885). "Diagnoses de Coléoptères de l'Afrique orientale". Comptes-rendus des séances de la Société entomologique de Belgique. Sér. 3 (54): 8. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12736574. 
  6. ↑ Lesne, P. (1905). "Un Cléride saharien nouveau (Opilo desertorum nov. sp.)". Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 11 (6): 388–390. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5033927. 
  7. ↑ "Aïr: Iferouane".
  8. ↑ Lucas, H. (1843). "Coléoptères d'Algérie nés à Paris". Revue zoologique 6: 159. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2271251. 
  9. ↑ de Laporte, F. L. (1836). "Études entomologiques, ou Descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie". Revue entomologique 4: 42. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25528852. 
  10. ↑ de la Escalera, Manuel Martínez (1914). "Los Coleópteros de Marruercos". Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie Zoológica (Madrid) 11: 249–250. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13465909. 
  11. ↑ Boheman, Carolus H. (1851). "Opilus (Latr.) robustus". Coleoptera: (Buprestides, Elaterides, Cebrionites, [...], Clerii, [...], Hydrophilidae.). Insecta Caffraria annis 1838–1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. 1. Holmia. pp. 485–487. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9907947. 
  12. ↑ Kolibáč, Jiří; Huang, Diying (2016). "The oldest known clerid fossils from the Middle Jurassic of China, with a review of Cleridae systematics (Coleoptera)". Systematic Entomology 41 (4): S3. A list of fossils described within the family Cleridae. doi:10.1111/syen.12192. 
  13. ↑ †Thanasimodes jantar Kolibac 1997 (checkered beetle) at fossilworks.org (retrieved 15 September 2017)

Further reading


Wikidata ☰ Q18596160 entry




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