Sphaerothorax

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: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Scirtoidea

Familia: Clambidae
Subfamilia: Clambinae
Genus: Sphaerothorax
Species: S. americanus – S. andensis – S. brevisternalis – S. halleyi – S. kuscheli – S. lawrenceanus – S. pubiventris – S. rufocastaneus – S. suffusus – S. tasmani – S. tierensis – S. victoriae – S. zealandicus – †S. uenoi
Name

Sphaerothorax Endrödy-Younga, 1959

Type species: Clambus tasmani Blackburn, 1902
Fixation: original designation

References

Cai, C., Lawrence, J.F., Yamamoto, S., Leschen, R.A.B., Newton, A.F., Ślipiński, A., Yin, Z., Huang, D. & Engel, M.S. 2019. Basal polyphagan beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar: biogeographic implications and long-term morphological stasis. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 286(1894): 20182175. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2175 Open access. Reference page.
Blackburn, T. 1902: Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 26: 288–321. PDF
Endrödy-Younga, S. 1959: Systematischer Überblick über die Familie Clambidae (Col.) Opuscula entomologica 24: 81–116. Reference page.
Endrödy-Younga, S. 1990: Clambidae of New Zealand (Coleoptera: Eucinetoidea). New Zealand journal of zoology, 17: 119–135. BUGZ
Endrödy-Younga, S. 1990: A revision of the Australian Clambidae (Coleoptera: Eucinetoidea). Invertebrate taxonomy, 4: 247–280. Abstract
Endrödy-Younga, S. 1995: Description of two new species of Sphaerothorax Endrödy-Younga (Coleoptera: Clambidae) from Chile: relicts in Nothofagus forests reflecting ecological zonation in Gondwanaland. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 36(12): 177–182.