Chanopterus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Promecheilidae
Genus: Chanopterus
Species: C. paradoxus
Name

Chanopterus Boheman, 1858
Gender

masculine
Synonyms

Chitoniscus Waterhouse, 1876 [attrib. G. R. Waterhouse, MS] [ junior homonym ]

Type species

Chanopterus Boheman:
Chitoniscus Waterhouse: Chitoniscus brevipennis Waterhouse, 1876 [=Chanopterus paradoxus Boheman, 1858], by monotypy

References
cited sources

Waterhouse, C.O. 1876: On some new genera and species of heteromerous Coleoptera (Helopidae) from Tierra del Fuego. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1875: 331–337. Internet Archive BHL

Additional references

Fairmaire, L. 1885: Liste des Coléoptères recueillis a la Terre de Feu par la Mission de la Romanche et description des espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (6), 5: 33–62. Internet Archive BHL

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