Xylographus nitidissimus

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Xylographus nitidissimus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Ciidae
Genus: Xylographus
Species:
X. nitidiissimus
Binomial name
Xylographus nitidiissimus
Pic, 1916
Synonyms
  • Xylographus longicolis

Xylographus nitidissimus is a species of beetles of the family Ciidae. [1] It occurs in São Tomé and Príncipe. The species was first described in 1916. [2]

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São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, about 140 kilometres apart and about 250 and 225 kilometres off the northwestern coast of Gabon, respectively.

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References

  1. Xylographus nitidissimus Pic, 1916 . Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera  on 18 January 2019.
  2. Pic, M. (1916). Mélanges exotico-entomologiques. 17. Moulins: Étienne Auclaire. p. 13.