| Spodistes | |
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| Spodistes mniszechi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dynastidae |
| Genus: | Spodistes (Thomson, 1860) |
Spodistes is a genus of beetles. It has eight species.
Species of the genus Spodistes are found in Central America, particularly Costa Rica (most commonly found), Panama and Honduras. [1] The species S. beltianus lives in Costa Rica where nine specimens have been found. [2] The species S. batesi lives in Costa Rica and Panama where five have been found in Costa Rica and four have been found in Panama.
The genus has eight species recognised:
Bangs's mountain squirrel is a poorly known species of tree squirrel, that only lives in Costa Rica and Panama. It can be found in mountain rain forests at an altitude between 1,900 and 2,600 metres, and lives mainly in the tree tops, but sometimes on the forest floor as well. One of its habitats is at the summit of the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica, in a Clusia forest that is almost inaccessible to humans.
The green thorntail is a small hummingbird in the "coquettes", tribe Lesbiini of subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama.
The least honeyguide is a small species of bird in the family Indicatoridae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Passalus caelatus is a beetle of the Family Passalidae.
Echinolittorina meleagris is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.
Maxates sinuolata is a moth in the family Geometridae. It was first described by Inoue in 1989. It is found in Taiwan.
Pygmodeon validicorne is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1885.
Acraga ampela is a moth in the family Dalceridae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1890. It has been collected in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
Phyllalia ziczac is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Strand in 1911. It is found in South Africa. Only one specimen has been recorded.
Trosia nigropunctigera, commonly known as the rosy ermine moth, is a lepidopteran in the family Megalopygidae native to the Neotropics. These moths have a wingspan of 45-60mm, and are distributed across Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador and Peru. The species was first described by David Stephen Fletcher in 1982.
Rolepa nigrostriga is a moth in the Phiditiidae family. It was described by William Schaus in 1920.
Rhinusa pilosa is a species of true weevil in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae. It is found exclusively on Linaria vulgaris Mill. (Plantaginaceae), also known as common or yellow toadflax where it creates a gall on the plant's stem, and was found originally in Serbia. R. pilosa has been introduced in the United States and Canada as an biocontrol agent to control L. vulgaris.
Lobophytum verum is a species soft coral of the genus Lobophytum.
Eriorhynchidae is a family in the order Trombidiformes described by Qin & Halliday, 1997. There have been observations along the East Coast of Australia.
Chaetostoma chimu is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Andean foothills of the Orinoco basin in Colombia. It was described in 2020 by Alexander Urbano-Bonilla and Gustavo A. Ballen on the basis of the distinctive morphology and coloration of the 119 specimens examined. FishBase does not list this species.
Pseudancistrus genisetiger is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Jaguaribe River basin in Brazil. The species reaches 10.3 cm SL.
Hypostomus papariae is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it is believed to occur in the Potenji River basin in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. The species reaches 11.4 cm in total length and is believed to be a facultative air-breather. The specific epithet papariae likely refers to Lake Papari, which the species is known from, an etymology shared with another loricariid species, Pseudancistrus papariae.
Automeris amanda, commonly known as the peacock silkmoth or peacock moth, is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae. It is indigenous to South America.
Xanthodirphia abbreviata is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Costa Rica.
The cloud-dwelling spiny pocket mouse is a species of rodent (Rodentia) that is endemic to the high elevations of Cordillera de Tilarán and Cordillera de Guanacaste within Costa Rica. It is contained within the Heteromys desmarestianus species complex.
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