Tarphiomimus

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: Zopheridae
Subfamilia: Colydiinae
Tribus: Synchitini
Genus: Tarphiomimus
Species (3): T. indentatus – T. wollastoni – ?T. tuberculatus
Name

Tarphiomimus Wollaston, 1873: 12

Gender: masculine
Original status: valid genus
Type species: Tarphiomimus indentatus Wollaston, 1873
Fixation: original designation (unclear) and monotypy

Synonymy

Ectomida Pascoe, 1876 [syn. Sharp (1876: 18, implied by synonymy of type species)]

Type species: Ectomida lacerata Pascoe, 1876, by monotypy

References

Sharp, D. 1876. On the Colydiidae of New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 18(103): 17–29. DOI: 10.1080/00222937608682003 Paywall. BHL Reference page.
Ślipiński, S.A.; Lawrence, J.F. 1997: Genera of Colydiinae (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) of the Australo-Pacific region. Annales zoologici 47(3/4): 341-440. Reference page. [See p. 417]