| Porrostoma | |
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| Porrostoma rhipidius | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Elateriformia |
| Family: | Lycidae |
| Tribe: | Metriorrhynchini |
| Genus: | Porrostoma Laporte, 1838 |
Porrostoma is a genus of net-winged beetles in the family Lycidae, occurring in Australia and New Zealand.
Most of the >100 species in Porrostoma were formerly placed in other genera such as Metriorrhynchus , and as a result, the spelling of the species names is subject to much confusion in the literature and online sources (e.g. [1] ) but under ICZN Article 31 the correct spelling of all adjectival names requires agreement with the neuter gender of the genus, while all names that are nouns (or potentially nouns; e.g., eremita, [2] eucerus, [3] frater, [4] hexastichus, [5] monticola, [6] nigricauda, [7] paradoxa, [8] quinquecavus, [9] rhipidius [10] , and trichocerus [11] ) must retain their original spelling, and do not change. [12]
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