Wattadelium

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: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Lagriinae
Tribus: Adeliini
Genera: Wattadelium
Species: W. alienum – W. curtulum – W. pleurale
Name

Wattadelium Emberson, 2000

Gender: neuter

Type species: Edalus opacus Broun, 1893 [=Adelium alienum Broun, 1880], by subsequent designation by Gebien (1942: 746)
Synonyms

Edalus Broun, 1893 [nec Edalus Broun, 1886]
Wattadelium Emberson, 2000

Wattadelium sp.

References

Emberson, R.M. 2000. The many names of the colydiine beetle Rytinotus squamulosus Broun (Coleoptera: Zopheridae), and a replacement name for Edalus Broun, 1893 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). New Zealand entomologist 23: 23–25.
Watt, J.C. 1992. Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): catalogue of types and keys to taxa. Fauna of New Zealand (26)