Collops (beetle)
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Melyridae |
Subfamily: | Malachiinae |
Tribe: | Malachiini |
Genus: | Collops Erichson, 1840 |
Collops is a genus of soft-winged flower beetles in the family Melyridae. There are more than 30 described species in Collops.[1][2]
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Species
[edit]These 38 species belong to the genus Collops:
- Collops arizonensis Marshall
- Collops balteatus (red cross beetle)
- Collops bipunctatus (Say, 1823) (two-spotted melyrid)
- Collops blandus
- Collops cribrosus LeConte, 1852
- Collops crusoe
- Collops discretus Fall, 1912
- Collops dux Fall, 1912
- Collops eximius
- Collops flavicinctus
- Collops grandis
- Collops hirtellus LeConte, 1876
- Collops histrio
- Collops insulatus
- Collops knulli
- Collops limbellus
- Collops marginellus
- Collops marginicollis
- Collops necopinus
- Collops nigriceps (black-headed melyrid)
- Collops nigritus Schaeffer
- Collops pallipes
- Collops parvus Schaeffer
- Collops punctatus
- Collops punctulatus
- Collops quadriguttatus
- Collops quadrimaculatus (Fabricius, 1798) (four-spotted collops)
- Collops reflexus
- Collops simplex
- Collops sublimbatus Schaeffer
- Collops tibialis Schaeffer, 1912
- Collops tricolor (Say, 1823)
- Collops versatilis Fall, 1912
- Collops vicarius
- Collops vittatus (Say, 1823) (melyrid beetle)
- † Collops desuetus Wickham, 1914
- † Collops extrusus Wickham, 1914
- † Collops priscus Wickham, 1914
References
[edit]- ^ "Collops". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ^ "Collops genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
External links
[edit]Media related to Collops at Wikimedia Commons