Elonus

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: Aderidae
Genus: Elonus
Species: E. basalis – E. chisosensis – E. excavatus – E. hesperus – E. nebulosus – E. simplex
Name

Elonus Casey, 1895
Type species

Xylophilus nebulosus LeConte, 1875, by subsequent designation by Werner (1990: 228)

References

Casey, T.L. 1895. Coleopterological notices. VI. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 8: 435–846.
Gompel, N. 2017. A review of North American Elonus species, with description of E. gruberi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Aderidae). Zootaxa 4338(3): 533–545. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.8. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Werner, F.G. 1990: Revision of the Aderidae of eastern North America. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 98: 187–232. JSTOR

Elonus is a genus of ant-like leaf beetles in the family Aderidae. There are about seven described species in Elonus in North America.[1][2][3]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Elonus:

Elonus basalis (LeConte, 1855)
Elonus chisosensis Werner, 1993
Elonus excavatus Werner, 1993
Elonus gruberi Gompel, 2017
Elonus hesperus Werner, 1990
Elonus nebulosus (LeConte, 1875)
Elonus simplex Werner, 1993

References

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

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

Further reading

Werner, Floyd G. (1993). "The Nearctic species of Elonus (Coleoptera: Aderidae)". Psyche. 99 (4): 245–264. doi:10.1155/1992/97483.
Gompel, Nicolas (2017). "A review of North American Elonus species, with description of E. gruberi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Aderidae)". Zootaxa. 4338 (3): 533–545. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.8. PMID 29245717.
Kubisz, Daniel; Iwan, Dariusz; Tykarski, Piotr (2014). Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis. University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation. ISBN 978-83-935107-9-5.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.