Sparedrus

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: Oedemeridae
Subfamilia: Calopodinae
Genus: Sparedrus
Species: S. affinis – S. albipilis – S. alesivani – S. archaicus – S. bulgaricus – S. championi – S. concolor – S. davidis – S. elegans – S. fuscus – S. holzschuhi – S. hurkai – S. kazakhstanicus – S. klapperichi – S. kutiauensis – S. lencinae – S. lepidus – S. longicollis – S. longicornis – S. murinus – S. nebulosus – S. orsinii – S. pakistanicus – S. proximus – S. sasajii – S. sepiaceus – S. similis – S. subserratus – S. testaceus – S. unicolor – S. uzbekistanicus
Name

Sparedrus Dejean, 1821
Synonyms

Ocularium Pic, 1922
Polacus Sasaji, 1985
Saloninus Fairmaire, 1891
Sparedropsis von Heyden, 1886
Sphaedrus Kuhnt, 1912

References

I.Löbl & A.Smetana (eds). 2008 Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark
ISBN 87-88757-84-6, pp. 353 - 354
Vitali, F. & Ellenberger, S. 2019. Sparedrus archaicus n. sp. the first false blister beetle from Burmese amber. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 19(1): 23-27. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Sparedrus is a genus of false blister beetles in the family Oedemeridae. There are more than seven described species in Sparedrus.[1][2][3]
Species

These seven species belong to the genus Sparedrus:

Sparedrus albipilis Svihla, 1983
Sparedrus aspersus (LeConte, 1886)
Sparedrus depressus (Champion, 1889)
Sparedrus lencinae Vazquez, 1988
Sparedrus longicollis Svihla, 2006
Sparedrus orsinii Costa, 1852
Sparedrus testaceus (Andersch, 1797)

References

"Sparedrus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Sparedrus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Sparedrus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

Kubisz, Daniel; Iwan, Dariusz; Tykarski, Piotr (2014). Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis. University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation. ISBN 978-83-935107-9-5.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.