Acontosceles

Life-forms

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: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Byrrhoidea

Familia: Limnichidae
Subfamilia: Thaumastodinae
Genus: Acontosceles
Species (11): A. chujoi – A. hydroporoides – A. jaechi – A. javanicus – A. negrosensis – A. quatuordecimmaculosus – A. siwalikensis – A. tagalog – A. yorioi – A. yunnanensis – A. zetteli
Name

Acontosceles Champion, 1924
Type species: Acontosceles hydroporoides Champion, 1924
Fixation: original designation

References

Champion, G.C. 1924: On a new subfamily of clavicorn Coleoptera. Entomologists monthly magazine, 60: 25–29.
Pütz, A. 2008: Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Acontosceles CHAMPION, 1924 (Coleoptera: Limnichidae: Thaumastodinae) [Information on the genus Acontosceles Champion, 1924 (Coleoptera: Limnichidae: Thaumastodinae).] Koleopterologische rundschau, 78: 305–327.
Yoshitomi, H.; Satô, M. 2005: A new species of the genus Acontosceles (Coleoptera, Limnichidae) from Laos,with description of the genitalia of A. yorioi M. Satô. Elytra 33(1): 34-41. Full issue (PDF) Reference page.