Bothriospila
Bothriospila elegans, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Subfamily: Cerambycinae
Tribe: Bothriospilini
Genus: Bothriospila
Aurivillius, 1923
Type species
Bothriospila elegans
Aurivillius, 1923
Species

B. elegans
B. pulcherrima

Bothriospila is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, and the type genus of the tribe Bothriospilini.[1] It contains two species: the type, Bothriospila elegans, found in Brazil and Paraguay, and Bothriospila pulcherrima, found in Brazil.[2] The latter was described as a new species from Brazil in 2012.[3] Bothriospila was circumscribed in 1923 by Swedish entomologist Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Bezark, Larry G. "A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World". Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  2. ↑ "Bothriospila". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Martins, Ubirajara R.; Galileo, Maria Helena M. (2012). "Novos táxons de Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) das Américas Central e do Sul" [New taxa of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from Central and South America] (PDF). Iheringia. Série Zoologia (in Portuguese). 102 (3): 331–339. doi:10.1590/s0073-47212012000300013.
  4. ↑ Aurivillius, C. (1923). "Neue oder wenig bekannte Coleoptera Longicornia 19". Arkiv för Zoologi (in German). 15 (25): 437–479.
  5. ↑ Monné, M.A.; Nearns, E.H. (2022). Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical Region. Part I. Subfamily Cerambycinae. Zootaxa (Report). Vol. 1023.


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