Melalgus

Melalgus
Melalgus batillus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Bostrichidae
Subfamily:	Polycaoninae
Genus:	Melalgus Dejean, 1833

Melalgus is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melalgus. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Melalgus femoralis

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Melalgus:

• Melalgus amoenus (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus batillus (Lesne, 1902)
• Melalgus borneensis (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus caribeanus (Lesne, 1906)
• Melalgus confertus (LeConte, 1866) (branch and twig borer)
• Melalgus crassulus (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus digueti (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus exesus (LeConte, 1858)
• Melalgus feanus (Lesne, 1899)
• Melalgus femoralis (Fabricius, 1792)
• Melalgus gonagrus (Fabricius, 1798)
• Melalgus gracilipes (Blanchard, 1843)
• Melalgus jamaicensis (Lesne, 1906)
• Melalgus japonicum Chûjô, 1973
• Melalgus longitarsus (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus megalops (Fall, 1901)
• Melalgus parvidens (Lesne, 1895)
• Melalgus parvulus (Lesne, 1925)
• Melalgus plicatus (LeConte, 1874)
• Melalgus rufipes (Blanchard, 1843)
• Melalgus strigipennis (Lesne, 1937)
• Melalgus subdepressus (Lesne, 1897)
• Melalgus talpula (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus truncatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
• Melalgus valleculatus (Lesne, 1913)

References

1. "Melalgus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Melalgus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Melalgus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. Zahradník, Petr; Háva, Jiří (2014). "Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia)". Zootaxa. 3754 (4): 301–52. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1. PMID   24869695.

Further reading

• Solomon, J. D. (1995). "Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs". USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook.
• Fisher, W. S. (1950). "A revision of the North American species of beetles belonging to the family Bostrichidae". United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication (698): 1–157. hdl:2027/uva.x030450778.
• Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN   9788392618218.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-8788757675.
• Arango, Rachel A.; Young, Daniel K. (2012). Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) (PDF). General Technical Report. Vol. FPL–GTR–209. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.

External links

• Media related to Melalgus at Wikimedia Commons