Meroscelisus

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
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Cerambycidae
Subfamilia: Prioninae
Tribus: Meroscelisini
Genus: Meroscelisus

Species: M. apicalis – M. opacus – M. servillei – M. thoracicus – M. violaceus – M. zikani
Name

Meroscelisus Audinet-Serville, 1832: 157

Type species: Meroscelisus violaceus Audinet-Serville, 1832 (monotypy)
Synonyms

Syennesis Pascoe, 1888
Type species: Syennesis dispar Pascoe, 1888 (monotypy)

References
Primary references

Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1832. Nouvelle classification de la famille des Longicornes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (1) 1: 118–201. BHL Reference page.

Links

Meroscelisus – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Tavakilian, G. & Chevillotte, H.: TITAN: Cerambycidae database, accessed 2021-08-26.

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

Meroscelisus apicalis White, 1853
Meroscelisus opacus Buquet, 1860
Meroscelisus servillei Thomson, 1865
Meroscelisus thoracicus Seabra, 1942
Meroscelisus violaceus Audinet-Serville, 1832
Meroscelisus zikani Melzer, 1919

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.