Ascioplaga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Suborder:
Family:
Genus:
Ascioplaga

Neboiss, 1984
Species
  • Ascioplaga mimeta Neboiss, 1984
  • Ascioplaga scalena (Neboiss, 1984)
  • Ascioplaga sciasma Neboiss, 1984

Ascioplaga is a genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae, containing two species endemic to New Caledonia and one described from northern Queensland in Australia.[1][2] The Australian species, Ascioplaga scalena, was originally described as a species of Adinolepis, and was transferred to Ascioplaga in 2009.[3]

References

  1. Rodríguez-Mirón, G.M.; López-Pérez, S. (2019). "A new reticulated beetle (Coleoptera: Cupedidae) from Mexico with a catalogue of Cupedidae species of the world". Zootaxa. 4567 (1): 147–160. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.8.
  2. Lawrence, J.F.; Escalona, H.E. (2019). "3. Cupedidae Laporte, 1836". In Ślipiński, A.; Lawrence, J.F. (eds.). Australian Beetles Volume 2: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part). Csiro Publishing. pp. 8–12. ISBN 9780643097315.
  3. Hörnschemeyer, T. (2009). "The species-level phylogeny of archostematan beetles-where do Micromalthus debilis and Crowsoniella relicta belong?". Systematic Entomology. 34 (3): 533–558. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00476.x.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.