Pterogenius

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: Pterogeniidae
Genus: Pterogenius
Species: P. besucheti – P. nietneri

[list of species after Burckhardt & Löbl (1992)]
Name

Pterogenius Candèze, 1861
Gender

masculine
Synonyms

Pterogenius Candèze, 1861
Apogenia Pascoe, 1866

Type species

Pterogenius nietneri Candèze, 1861, by monotypy

References

Burckhardt, D.; Löbl, I. 1992: A review of the Pterogeniidae (Coleoptera). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 104: 243–291. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1992.tb00924.x
Lawrence, J.F. 1977: The family Pterogeniidae, with notes on the phylogeny of the Heteromera. Coleopterists bulletin, 31: 25–56. JSTOR

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