Mitua

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
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Lagriinae
Tribus: Adeliini
Genus: Mitua
Species: M. triangularis – M. tuberculicostata
Name

Mitua Hope, 1848
Synonyms

Mitua Hope, 1848. Type species: Mitua bidwelli Hope, 1848 [=Opatrum tuberculicostatum White, 1846]
Pseudopatrum Sharp, 1886. Type species: Pseudopatrum sordidum Sharp, 1886 [=Opatrum tuberculicostatum White, 1846]

Mitua tuberculicostata

References
cited sources

Hope, F.W. 1848: Descriptions of several new species of Helaeidae from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 5: 52–56. Internet Archive BHL
Sharp, D. 1886: On New Zealand Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Scientific transactions of the Royal Dublin Society (2), 3: 351–454, plates 12-13. Internet Archive Biodiversity Heritage Library
White, A. 1846: Insects of New Zealand. Pp. 1-27, plates 1-7 in: Richardson, J.; Gray, J.E. (eds) The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Vol. II. Reptiles, fishes, Crustacea, insects, Mollusca. London: E.W. Janson. Internet Archive Biodiversity Heritage Library

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