Nephrites

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
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Ripiphoridae
Subfamilia: Hemirhipidiinae
Genus: Nephrites
Species: N. apicalis – N. helenae – N. japonicus – N. kurosawai – N. nitidus – N. obscurus – N. wilsoni
Name

Nephrites Shuckard, 1838
Synonyms

Nephrites Shuckard, 1838: 512

Type species

Nephrites nitidus Shuckard, 1838

References

Riek, E.F. 1973: Rhipiphorid beetles of the subfamily Nephritinae (Coleoptera: Rhipiphoridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 12: 261–276.
Selander, R.B. 1957: The systematic position of the genus Nephrites and the phylogenetic relationships of the higher groups of Rhipiphoridae (Coleoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 50: 88–103.
Tôyama, M.; Hatayama, T. 1985: Occurrence of the rhipiphorid subfamily Hemirhipidiinae in Japan and Taiwan (Coleoptera, Rhipiphoridae). Gekkan-Mushi, 176: 18–24.

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