Selatosomus melancholicus

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Selatosomus melancholicus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Elateriformia
Family: Elateridae
Genus: Selatosomus
Species:
S. melancholicus
Binomial name
Selatosomus melancholicus
(Fabricius, 1798) [1]

Selatosomus melancholicus is a species of click beetle native to Europe. [2] [3] This species is in the subgenus Pristilophus , which some authorities treat as a separate genus (e.g., [4] ).

References

  1. ↑ Fabricius, J.C., 1798. Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Proft et Storch, Hafniae, Supplementum pp. 1-582
  2. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  3. ↑ Norman H. Joy, 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
  4. ↑ Qiu, Lu (2018): A new species of Selatosomus Stephens and the occurrence of Pristilophus melancholicus (Fabricius) in China (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Dendrometrinae). Zootaxa 4418 (6): 588-593, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4418.6.6


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