Entelopes shelfordi

Entelopes shelfordi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Cerambycidae
Genus:	Entelopes
Species:	E. shelfordi
Binomial name
Entelopes shelfordi Aurivillius, 1923 [1]

Entelopes shelfordi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1923 based on a description and illustration by Robert Walter Campbell Shelford in 1902. It is known from Borneo. ^[2]

Shelford wrote that this species mimicked the species Metrioidea apicalis in the family Galerucidae. ^[3]

References

1. Aurivillius, Chr. (1923). "Entelopes Guér.". In Junk, W.; Schenkling, S. (eds.). Cerambycidae: Lamiinae II. Coleopterorm Catalogus. Vol. 74. Berlin: W. Junk. p. 492.
2. BioLib.cz - Entelopes shelfordi. Retrieved on 8 September 2014.
3. Shelford, R. (1902). "Observations on some Mimetic Insects and Spiders from Borneo and Singapore". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 2 (15): 244.

Further reading

• Breuning, Stephan (1954). "Revision von 35 Gattungen aus der Gruppe der Saperdini Muls. (Col. Cerambycidae)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München. 5 (2): 479–480.