Autocrates

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: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Trictenotomidae
Genus: Autocrates
Species (4): A. aeneus – A. maqueti – A. oberthueri – A. vitalisi
Name

Autocrates Thomson, 1860: 28
Gender: masculine
Type: Trictenotoma aenea Westwood, 1846
Type by monotypy

References

Lin, M.; Drumont, A.; Yang, X. 2007: The genus Autocrates Thomson in China: occurrence and geographical distribution of species (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Entomologie, 77: 147–156. [not seen]
Thomson, J. 1860: Musée scientifique ou recueil d'histoire naturelle. 88 pp., 9 pls. Paris, chez l'auteur. Google Books

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Autocrates is a genus of beetles in the Trictenotomidae family with five species across the Indomalayan realm. They are sexually dimorphic with males having longer and more sinuate mandibles.[1]
Species

Five species have been described:[2][3]

Autocrates aeneus (Westwood 1846) - Himalayas from India to China
Autocrates ivanovi Drumont, 2016 - Vietnam[4]
Autocrates maqueti Drumont, 2006 - China, Korea
Autocrates oberthueri Vuillet, 1910 - Tibet, China
Autocrates vitalisi Vuillet, 1912 - Vietnam, Cambodia, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), Yunnan), Laos, Thailand, West Malaysia, Myanmar

References

Lin, Meiying; Drumont, Alain; Yang, Xingke (2007). "The genus Autocrates Thomson in China: occurrence and geographical distribution of species (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae)" (PDF). Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 77: 147–156.
Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz.
Descarpentries, André; Villiers, André (1973). "Notes sur le genre Autocrates [Col. Trictenotomidae]". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 78: 253–256.
Drumont, Alain (2016). "Nouvelle contribution à l'étude du genre Autocrates Thomson, 1860 avec la description d'une nouvelle espèce du Vietnam: A. ivanovi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae)" (PDF). Revista gaditana de Entomología. 7 (1): 25–36.