Mecometopus

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: Cerambycinae
Tribus: Clytini
Genus: Mecometopus

Species: M. aesopus – M. arixi – M. aurantisignatus – M. batesii – M. bicinctus – M. cauaburi – M. centurio – M. erratus – M. giesberti – M. globicollis – M. hauseri – M. ion – M. latithorax – M. leprieuri – M. martinsi – M. melanion – M. mundus – M. palmatus – M. polygenus – M. remipes – M. riveti – M. sarukhani – M. wallacei – M. wappesi
Name

Mecometopus Thomson, 1861: 222

Type species: Mecometopus polygenus Thomson, 1861

Fixation: by subsequent designation, 1864: 193.

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.

Additional references

Galileo, M.H.M. & Santos-Silva, A. 2016. Five new species and a new country record in American Cerambycidae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4196(1): 129–143. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.1.8 Reference page.

Links

Mecometopus – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Tavakilian, G. & Chevillotte, H.: TITAN: Cerambycidae database, accessed 2021-08-12.

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

Mecometopus aesopus (Chevrolat, 1860)
Mecometopus aurantisignatus Zajciw, 1964
Mecometopus batesii (White, 1855)
Mecometopus bicinctus Aurivillius, 1920
Mecometopus cauaburi Martins & Galileo, 2011
Mecometopus centurio Chevrolat, 1862
Mecometopus curtus (Laporte & Gory, 1835)
Mecometopus giesberti Chemsak & Noguera, 1993
Mecometopus globicollis (Laporte & Gory, 1835)
Mecometopus ion (Chevrolat, 1860)
Mecometopus latithorax Martins & Galileo, 2008
Mecometopus leprieuri (Laporte & Gory, 1835)
Mecometopus melanion Bates, 1885
Mecometopus mundus (Chevrolat, 1860)
Mecometopus palmatus (Olivier, 1795)
Mecometopus polygenus Thomson, 1860
Mecometopus remipes Bates, 1885
Mecometopus riveti Gounelle, 1910
Mecometopus sarukhani Chemsak & Noguera, 1993
Mecometopus triangularis (Laporte & Gory, 1835)
Mecometopus wallacei (White, 1855)

References

Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World Archived 2013-08-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 22 May 2012.