Thoramus

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: Elateriformia
Superfamilia: Elateroidea

Familia: Elateridae
Subfamilia: Agrypninae
Tribus: Hemirhipini
Genus: Thoramus
Species: T. feredayi – T. foveolatus – T. laevithorax – T. obscurus – T. parryi – T. perblandus – T. rugipennis – T. wakefieldi
Name

Thoramus Sharp, 1877
Gender

masculine
Type species

Thoramus wakefieldi Sharp, 1877, by subsequent designation by Hyslop (1921: 672)

References
cited sources

Hyslop, J.A. 1921: Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 58: 621–673. Internet Archive BHL BUGZ
Sharp, D. 1877: On the Elateridae of New Zealand. Annals and magazine of natural history (4), 19: 396–413, 469-487. Internet Archive BHL BUGZ

Additional references

Broun, T. 1880: Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, Wellington. Internet Archive BHL BUGZ
Costa, C. 1992: Larva and pupa of Thoramus laevithorax (White, 1846) and the systematic position of the genus Thoramus Sharp, 1877 (Coleoptera, Elateridae, Pyrophorinae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 36(1): 223‑227. ISSN: 0085-5626
Evenhuis, N.L. 2003: Publication and dating of the journals forming the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Journal of Natural History. Zootaxa, 385: 1–68. [+erratum] Abstract & excerpt [p.27, the publication date of Sharp (1877: 396–413) is 1 May 1877, and that of Sharp (1877: 469–487) is 1 June 1877, contra Muona (1993: 45)]
Muona, J. 1993: Review of the phylogeny, classification and biology of the family Eucnemidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica scandinavica, supplement 44 ISSN: 0105-3574 [p. 45, 'Notes: Miss C. M. F. von Hayek (pers. com.) has pointed out to me that Sharp's article "On the Elateridae of New Zealand", Annls Mag. nat. Hist. (4) 19:469-487, was actually published in 1887, not in 1877, as cited ...']

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