Elateroides

Elateroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Lymexylidae
Genus:	Elateroides; Schaeffer, 1766
Synonyms
	Hylecoetus Latreille, 1806; Hylicetus Berthold, 1827 (Lapsus calami); Xylecoethus Gyllenhal, 1827 (Lapsus calami); Hyloceotus Melsheimer, 1853 (Lapsus calami); Hyloecotus Lacordaire, 1857 (Lapsus calami); Hylecerus Jacquelin du Val, 1863 (Lapsus calami);

Elateroides is a genus of rarely found beetles in the family Lymexylidae, containing the following species:^[1]

Species

Elateroides dermestoides (Linnaeus, 1761)
Elateroides flabellicornis (Schneider, 1791)
Elateroides lugubris (Say, 1835)

Taxonomy

Nardi 2019 writes (p. 597) "Bollow (1940: 867) described Hylecoetus dermestoides L. ab. nigrocephalus, H. dermestoides L. ab. Reitteri and H. dermestoides L. ab. Stoeckleini from Germany, but they are unavailable infrasubspecific names."

References

^ Lymexylidae Species List at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 17 May 2012.

Nardi, G. 2019. Synonymic notes on European Lymexylidae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4450(4): 597–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.4.11

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[1] Lymexylidae Species List at Joel Hallan’s Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 17 May 2012.

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