| Scalenus | |
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| Scalenus fasciatipennis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Tribe: | Callichromatini |
| Genus: | Scalenus Gistel, 1848 |
| Synonyms | |
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Colobus Audinet-Serville, 1833 (Unav.) | |
Scalenus is an Old World genus of round-necked longhorn beetles of the subfamily Cerambycinae.
In his 1889 book Darwinism, Alfred Russel Wallace discusses Batesian mimicry with a plate of a Scalenus species (S. fasciatipennis) that closely mimics a wasp.[1]
Species
Scalenus auricomus (Ritsema, 1890)
Scalenus borneensis Bentanachs & Drouin, 2014
Scalenus cingalensis (White, 1855)
Scalenus fasciatipennis (Waterhouse, 1885)
Scalenus fulvus (Bates, 1879)
Scalenus hefferni Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018
Scalenus hemipterus (Olivier, 1795)
Scalenus kalimantanensis Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018
Scalenus pejchai Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018
Scalenus philippensis Bentanachs & Drouin, 2014
Scalenus sericeus (Saunders, 1853)
Scalenus skalei Bentanachs & Jiroux, 2018
Scalenus ysmaeli Hüdepohl, 1987
References
- ↑ Wallace, Alfred Russel (1889). Darwinism. London: Macmillan. p. 259.
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