Esmeralda

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Cerambycidae
Subfamilia: Prioninae
Tribus: Mallaspini
Genus: Esmeralda

Species: E. coerulea – E. costulata – E. laetifica – E. polita
Name

Esmeralda Thomson, 1861

Type species: Esmeralda suavis Thomson, 1861 (monotypy) (= Prionus Cæruleus Schönherr, 1817)

References
Primary references

Thomson, J. 1860–1861. Essai d'une classification de la famille des cérambycides et matériaux pour servir a une monographie de cette famille. Paris, 404 pp, 3 pls. [1860: pp. 1–128, 1861: pp. 129–396]. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.9206Reference page. : 303

Links

Esmeralda – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Tavakilian, G. & Chevillotte, H.: TITAN: Cerambycidae database, accessed 2021-03-23.

Esmeralda is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:[1]

Esmeralda coerulea (Schoenherr, 1817)
Esmeralda costulata Bates, 1891
Esmeralda laetifica Bates, 1869
Esmeralda polita (Fragoso & Monné, 1988)

References

Bezark, Larry G. "Esmeralda". A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World. Archived from the original on 23 February 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2012.