Trixagus

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: Throscidae
Genus: Trixagus
Species (35): T. algiricus – T. angulatus – T. asiaticus – T. astruci – T. atticus – T. bachofeni – T. baluchicus – T. carinifrons – T. chinensis – T. dermestoides – T. difficilis – T. duvalii – T. elateroides – T. exul – T. gauthieri – T. gracilis – T. latior – T. lesegneuri – T. maai – T. mesopotamicus – T. micado – T. minutus – T. moderatus – T. niger – T. obtusus – T. orientalis – T. ovalis – T. penicillus – T. perversus – T. rougeti – T. schenklingi – T. simplicifrons – T. syriacus – T. turkestanus – †T. majusculus
Name

Trixagus Kugelann, 1794
Synonymy

Throscus Latreille, 1796
Trixacus Wollaston, 1854

References

Kovalev, A.V., 2012: A new species of the genus Trixagus Kugelann, 1794 (Coleoptera, Throscidae) from Iran. Entomological Review 92 (5): 528–530. Abstract: DOI: 10.1134/S0013873812050053. Original Russian Text published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 2012, 91 (1): 95–98.

Photos

Trixagus sp. (photo by K.V. Makarov)

Trixagus is a genus of small false click beetles in the family Throscidae. There are more than 30 described species in Trixagus.[1][2][3]
Trixagus dermestoides

Species

These 32 species belong to the genus Trixagus:

Trixagus acutus (Horn, 1890)
Trixagus algiricus (Bonvouloir, 1861)
Trixagus asiaticus (Bonvouloir, 1859)
Trixagus atticus Reitter, 1921
Trixagus bachofeni Reitter, 1905
Trixagus carinicollis (Schaeffer, 1916)
Trixagus carinifrons (Bonvouloir, 1859)
Trixagus chevrolati (Bonvouloir, 1859)
Trixagus cobosi Yensen, 1980
Trixagus dermestoides (Linnaeus, 1767)
Trixagus duvalii (Bonvouloir, 1859)
Trixagus elateroides (Heer, 1841)
Trixagus extraneus Fisher, 1942
Trixagus exul (Bonvouloir, 1859)
Trixagus gracilis Wollaston, 1854
Trixagus horni (Blanchard, 1917)
Trixagus leseigneuri Muona, 2002
Trixagus majusculus Kovalev & al., 2012
Trixagus mendax (Horn, 1885)
Trixagus meybohmi Leseigneur, 2005
Trixagus micado
Trixagus minutus Rey, 1891
Trixagus obtusus (Curtis, 1827)
Trixagus orientalis (Bonvouloir, 1859)
Trixagus ovalis Reitter, 1921
Trixagus peritulus Cockerell, 1925
Trixagus rougeti (Fauvel, 1885)
Trixagus sericeus (LeConte, 1868)
Trixagus sosnovskyi (Yablokov-Khnzorian, 1962)
Trixagus trivialis (Horn, 1890)
Trixagus turgidus Hisamatsu, 1985
† Throscus peritulus Cockerell, 1925

References

"Trixagus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Trixagus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Trixagus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

Yensen, Eric (1975). "A revision of the North American species of Trixagus Kugelann (Coleoptera: Throscidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 101 (1): 125–166. JSTOR 25078170.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.