Brachypterolus

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: Cucujoidea

Familia: Kateretidae
Genus: Brachypterolus
Species: B. antirrhini – B. cinereus – B. cylindricus – B. drusus – B. linariae – B. longulus – B. nanulus – B. pulicarius – B. shimoyamai – B. vestitus
Name

Brachypterolus Grouvelle, 1913

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Brachypterolus linariae

References

Genus Brachypterolus (Kateretidae) - atlas of beetles of Russia

Brachypterolus is a genus of short-winged flower beetles in the family Kateretidae. There are about six described species in Brachypterolus.[1][2][3]
Brachypterolus pulicarius

Species

These six species belong to the genus Brachypterolus:

Brachypterolus antirrhini (Murray, 1864)
Brachypterolus cinereus (Heer, 1841)
Brachypterolus linariae (Stephens, 1830)
Brachypterolus longulus (Reitter, 1885)
Brachypterolus pulicarius (Linnaeus, 1758) (toadflax flower-eating beetle)
Brachypterolus shimoyamai Hisamatsu, 1985

References

"Brachypterolus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Brachypterolus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Brachypterolus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

Price, Michele B.; Young, Daniel K. (2006). "An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kateretidae)". Insecta Mundi. 20 (1–2): 69–84. ISSN 0749-6737.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.