Cordylospasta

Cordylospasta
Female (upper) and male (lower) individuals of Cordylospasta opaca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Meloidae
Subfamily:	Meloinae
Tribe:	Eupomphini
Genus:	Cordylospasta Horn, 1875

Cordylospasta is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are at least two described species in Cordylospasta. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These two species belong to the genus Cordylospasta:

• Cordylospasta fulleri Horn, 1875
• Cordylospasta opaca (Horn, 1868)

References

1. "Cordylospasta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Cordylospasta". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Cordylospasta genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Pinto, John D. (1972). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Cordylospasta (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with an analysis of geographic variation in C. opaca". The Canadian Entomologist. 104 (8): 1161–1180. doi:10.4039/Ent1041161-8. S2CID   85649180.
• Pinto, J. D.; Bologna, M. A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History. 33 (4): 569–620. Bibcode:1999JNatH..33..569P. doi:10.1080/002229399300254.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-26090-0.