Iapir

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: Myxophaga
Superfamilia: Sphaerioidea

Familia: Torridincolidae
Subfamilia: Torridincolinae
Genus: Iapir
Species (6): I. borgmeieri – I. britskii – I. castalia – I. quadridentatus – I. trombetensis – I. vanini
Name

Iapir Py-Daniel, Fonseca & Barbosa, 1993 [nomen novum pro Hintonia Reichardt, 1973]
Synonyms

Ptyopteryx Reichardt & Costa, 1967 [nec Ptyopteryx Kolenati, 1848]. Type species: Ptyopteryx britskii Reichardt & Costa, 1967, by original designation.
Hintonia Reichardt, 1973 [nec Fraser-Brunner, 1949 (Osteichthyes)] [nomen novum pro Ptyopteryx Reichardt & Costa, 1967]

References

Py-Daniel, V.; da Fonseca, C.R.V.; Barbosa, U.C. 1993: Iapir nom. n. para Hintonia Reichardt, 1973 (Coleoptera, Torridincolidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 37(4): 671.
Reichardt, H. 1973: A critical study of the suborder Myxophaga, with a taxonomic revision of the Brazilian Torridincolidae and Hydroscaphidae (Coleoptera). Arquivos de zoologia (S Paulo), 24(2): 73–162.
Reichardt, H.; Costa, C. 1967: Ptyopteryx britskii, a new Neotropical genus and species of the hitherto Ethiopian Torridincolidae (Coleoptera, Myxophaga). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 21: 13–19.
Pinto, V.A.B.; Da Fonseca, C.R.V.; Hamada, N. 2011: Iapir quadridentatus sp. nov., a new torridincolid beetle from Brazil (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae). Zootaxa, 3031: 47–53. Preview
Sampaio, B.H.L. & Ferreira, N. Jr. 2014. A new species of Iapir Py-Daniel, Fonseca & Barbosa (Coleoptera: Myxophaga: Torridincolidae) from Brazil with key to species of the genus. Zootaxa 3753(2): 196–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.2.9. Reference page.

Iapir is a genus of beetles in the family Torridincolidae, containing these species:[1]

Iapir borgmeieri (Reichardt & Costa, 1961)
Iapir britskii (Reichardt & Costa, 1967)
Iapir castalia Reichardt, 1973
Iapir trombetensis (Fonseca, Py-Daniel & Barbosa, 1991)

References

Torridincolidae Species List Archived 2012-10-23 at the Wayback Machine at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 11 May 2012.