Melalgus

Melalgus is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melalgus.[1][2][3][4]

Melalgus femoralis

Melalgus
Melalgus batillus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Bostrichidae
Subfamily: Polycaoninae
Genus: Melalgus
Dejean, 1833

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Melalgus:

  • Melalgus amoenus (Lesne, 1911)
  • Melalgus batillus (Lesne, 1902)
  • Melalgus borneensis (Lesne, 1911)
  • Melalgus caribeanus (Lesne, 1906)
  • Melalgus confertus (LeConte, 1866) (branch and twig borer)
  • Melalgus crassulus (Lesne, 1911)
  • Melalgus digueti (Lesne, 1911)
  • Melalgus exesus (LeConte, 1858)
  • Melalgus feanus (Lesne, 1899)
  • Melalgus femoralis (Fabricius, 1792)
  • Melalgus gonagrus (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Melalgus gracilipes (Blanchard, 1843)
  • Melalgus jamaicensis (Lesne, 1906)
  • Melalgus japonicum Chûjô, 1973
  • Melalgus longitarsus (Lesne, 1911)
  • Melalgus megalops (Fall, 1901)
  • Melalgus parvidens (Lesne, 1895)
  • Melalgus parvulus (Lesne, 1925)
  • Melalgus plicatus (LeConte, 1874)
  • Melalgus rufipes (Blanchard, 1843)
  • Melalgus strigipennis (Lesne, 1937)
  • Melalgus subdepressus (Lesne, 1897)
  • Melalgus talpula (Lesne, 1911)
  • Melalgus truncatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
  • Melalgus valleculatus (Lesne, 1913)

References

  1. "Melalgus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Melalgus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  3. Zahradník, Petr; Háva, Jiří (2014). "Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia)". Zootaxa. 3754 (4): 301–52. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1. PMID 24869695.

Further reading

  • Media related to Melalgus at Wikimedia Commons


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