| Astraeus flavopictus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Astraeus |
| Species: | A. flavopictus |
| Binomial name | |
| Astraeus flavopictus | |
Astraeus flavopictus is a species of beetle in the jewel beetle family, Buprestidae, found in Australia. [1]
It was first described by Hippolyte Louis Gory and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau in 1837 from a specimen taken from the Swan River. [1] [2]
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician.
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described.
François-Louis Nompar de Caumont Laporte, comte de Castelnau was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau. The standard author abbreviation Castelnau is used to indicate him when citing a botanical name and zoological names other than insects. Laporte is typically used when citing an insect name, or Laporte de Castelnau.
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean, was a French entomologist. A soldier of fortune during the Napoleonic Wars, he rose to the rank of lieutenant general and aide de campe to Napoleon. He amassed vast collections of Coleoptera, some even collected on the battlefield at Waterloo. He listed 22,399 species in his cabinets in 1837—at the time, the greatest collection of Coleoptera in the world. In 1802, he began publishing a catalogue of his vast collection, including 22,000 species names. Dejean was an opponent of the Principle of Priority in nomenclature. "I have made it a rule always to preserve the name most generally used, and not the oldest one; because it seems to me that general usage should always be followed and that it is harmful to change what has already been established". Dejean acted accordingly and often introduced in litteris names, given by himself to replace those already published by other authors. They became invalid. Dejean was president of the Société entomologique de France for the year 1840. In 1834, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He died on 17 March 1845.
René Jeannel was a French entomologist. He was director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1945 to 1951. Jeannel's most important work was on the insect fauna of caves in the Pyrenees, France and in the Carpathians, Romania. He also worked in Africa. Jeannel specialised in Leiodidae but authored a large number of papers and works on other Coleoptera. He was a member of the Romanian Academy.
Hippolyte Louis Gory was a French entomologist.
Gaspard Auguste Brullé was a French entomologist.
Astraeus is a genus of "jewel beetles" in the subfamily Polycestinae, containing the following species:
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Scarabaeus puncticollis is a species of beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
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Oxysternon festivum is a species of dung-beetle of the scarab beetle family.
Oxysternon is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. It can be distinguished from all other phanaeines and scarabaeine dung beetles by a long, spiniform extension of the anterior angle of the metasternum. Most taxa vary in color and color pattern, and are more commonly found in tones of green, often infused with yellow or coppery highlights. All species appear very smooth or glassy smooth to the unaided eye.
Canthon quadriguttatus is a species of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles. It is found in Brazil, Colombia and Suriname.
Taeniotes farinosus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, originally under the genus Cerambyx.
Thanasimodes is a genus of beetles in the subfamily Clerinae.
André Théry (1864–1947) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Buprestidae. He founded in Algiers la Société d'Histoire naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord ( 1909) and in Morocco la Société des Sciences Naturelles (1920).
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