Atractocerus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Lymexyloidea

Familia: Lymexylidae
Subfamilia: Lymexylinae
Genus: Atractocerus
Synonyms

Fusicornis Philippi, 1866
Arractocetus Kurosawa, 1985
Hymaloxylon Kurosawa, 1985
Raractocetus Kurosawa, 1985

References

Kurosawa, Y. 1985: Revisional notes on the family Lymexylonidae (Coleoptera) in eastern and southeastern Asia. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A), 11: 109–119.

Atractocerus is a genus of beetles in the family Lymexylidae. The most recent revision of the family treats several small or monotypic genera as synonyms of Atractocerus,[1] though some authors continue to use the older generic names (e.g.[2]).
Species

Atractocerus aspoecki (Paulus, 2004)
Atractocerus ater Kraatz, 1895
Atractocerus atricollis Pic, 1955
Atractocerus bicolor Strohmeyer, 1910
Atractocerus bifasciatus Gestro, 1874
Atractocerus blairi Gardner, 1936
Atractocerus brasiliensis Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825
Atractocerus brevicornis (Linnaeus, 1766)
Atractocerus bruijnii Gestro, 1874
Atractocerus crassicornis Clark, 1931
Atractocerus emarginatus Laporte de Castelnau, 1836
Atractocerus gracilicornis Schenkling, 1914
Atractocerus kreuslerae Pascoe, 1864
Atractocerus monticola Kurosawa, 1985
Atractocerus morio Pascoe, 1860
Atractocerus niger Strohmeyer, 1910
Atractocerus nipponicus Nakane, 1985
Atractocerus procerus Schenkling, 1914
Atractocerus quercus Gardner, 1935
Atractocerus reversus Walker, 1858
Atractocerus siebersi Karny, 1922
Atractocerus tasmaniensis Lea, 1917
Atractocerus termiticola Wasmann, 1902
Atractocerus tonkineus Pic, 1948
Atractocerus valdivianus (Philippi, 1866)
Atractocerus victoriensis Blackburn, 1891

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References

Wheeler, Q. D. (1986). Revision of the genera of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 183:113-210
Paulus, H.F. (2004) Urtea graeca nov. gen. et nov. spec., der erste Vertreter der tropischen Atractocerinae in Europa, sowie eine Beschreibung von Hymaloxylon aspoecki nov. spec. aus Yunnan (China) (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Lymexylidae, Atractocerinae nov. status). Denisia, 13 (17.09.2004): 277-290
Lymexylidae Species List at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 17 May 2012.