Cossyphus

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Cossyphus
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Cossyphus hoffmannseggi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Tenebrionidae
Subfamily: Lagriinae
Genus: Cossyphus
Olivier, 1791

Cossyphus is a genus of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. [1] [2] [3] They occur in Eurasia and Africa. [2]

Species

There are about 33 species and subspecies. [2] Species recorded in Europe include the following: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Cossyphus Olivier, 1795". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea Secretariat, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Háva, Jiří (2010). "Contribution to the Cossyphus species (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Cossiphini)" (PDF). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology. 10 (1): 61–63.
  3. Doyen, John T. & Tschinkel, Walter R. (April 1982). "Phenetic and cladistic relationships among tenebrionid beetles (Coleoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 7 (2): 127–183. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1982.tb00129.x.