Dascillus

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: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Dascilloidea

Familia: Dascillidae
Subfamilia: Dascillinae
Genus: Dascillus
Species (27): D. aprutianus – D. atripes – D. bengalensis – D. cavaleriei – D. cervinus – D. congruus – D. costulatus – D. elongatus – D. fortunei – D. indicus – D. klapperichi – D. levigatus – D. liangshanensis – D. longicornis – D. maculosus – D. mongolicus – D. nigripennis – D. pallidofemoratus – D. perroudi – D. praestans – D. rufovillosus – D. sicanus – D. sublineatus – D. taiwanus – D. thibetanus – D. xuhaoi – D. yulongensis
Name

Dascillus Latreille, 1797
References
Primary references

Latreille, P.A. [1797]. Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. Prévôt, Paris [&] F. Bourdeaux, Brive. xiii + [1] + 201 + [7] pp. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Jin, Z-Y., Xie, G-L. & Yang, Q-X. 2016. Description of a new species of Dascillus Latreille from Sichuan, China (Coleoptera: Dascillidae). Zootaxa 4200(2): 321–323. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.5. Reference page.
Li, F-M., Ślipiński, A. & Jin, Z-Y. 2017. Description of a new species of Dascillus Latreille from Yunnan, China (Coleoptera: Dascillidae). Zootaxa 4341(3): 433–436. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.10. Reference page.
Terzani, F., Ceccolini, F., Hájek, J. & Cianferoni, F. 2017. Taxonomic review of the genus Dascillus Latreille, 1797 in the Western Palaearctic (Coleoptera: Dascillidae). Zootaxa 4282(2): 255–268. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4282.2.2. Reference page.
Wang, J., Li, S.B. & Jin, Z.Y. 2020. Two new species of the genus Dascillus Latreille from Yunnan Province, China (Coleoptera: Dascillidae). Oriental Insects 54(1): 106-113. DOI: 10.1080/00305316.2019.1588803. Paywall. Reference page.

Dascillus is a genus of soft-bodied plant beetles in the family Dascillidae. There are more than 20 described species in Dascillus.[1][2][3]
Dascillus cervinus

Species

These 24 species belong to the genus Dascillus:

Dascillus cervinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dascillus chifengi Jin, Ślipiński & Pang, 2013
Dascillus congruus Pascoe, 1860
Dascillus corporaali Pic, 1923
Dascillus davidsoni (LeConte, 1859)
Dascillus elongatus Zhang, 1989
Dascillus flatus Zhang, 1989
Dascillus formosanus Jin, Ślipiński & Pang, 2013
Dascillus lanceus Jin, Ślipiński & Pang, 2013
Dascillus latahensis Lewis, 1973
Dascillus lateralis Megerle
Dascillus levigatus Li, Ślipiński & Jin, 2017
Dascillus liangshanensis
Dascillus lithographicus Wickham, 1911
Dascillus malachiticus Knoch
Dascillus musculus Zhang & al., 1994
Dascillus plumbeus (Horn, 1880)
Dascillus relictus Zhang, 1989
Dascillus shandongianus Zhang, 1989
Dascillus sicanus Fairmaire, 1861
Dascillus smaragdinus Megerle
Dascillus sparsus Dahl
Dascillus subundatus Peiroleri
† Dascyllus lithographicus Wickham, 1911

References

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

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