Biology:Thanasimodes

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Thanasimodes
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Thanasimodes robustus in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya
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T. dorsalis
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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