Apteropilo

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cleroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Cleroidea

Familia: Cleridae
Subfamilia: Tarsosteninae
Genus: Apteropilo
Species: A. chrysocome – A. clarinotus – A. humerofuscus – A. pictipes – A. raldae – A. volans

[list of species after Bartlett (2009)]

Name

Apteropilo Lea, 1908

Gender

masculine?

Synonyms

• Pylusopsis Elston, 1929 [Bartlett, 2009: 43 (syn. n.)]

Type species

• Apteropilo Lea: Apteropilo pictipes Lea, 1908, by monotypy
• Pylusopsis Elston: Pylusopsis chrysocome Elston, 1929, by monotypy

Placement in Enopliinae

• 'Despite the recently proposed synonymy of Enopliinae, Tarsosteninae and Epiphloeinae with Korynetinae (Kolibáč 1997), Apteropilo is classified herein as Enopliinae due to sharing with several typical New World enopliine genera (i.e. Corinthiscus Fairmaire & Germain, Exochonotus and Neopylus) characters relating to the form of the pronotal hind angle (see Solervicens 2005), the lateral prothoracic tubercules, and antennal form. Unless subsequent revision of higher taxa demonstrates otherwise, this classification for Apteropilo appears the most appropriate' (Bartlett, 2009: 43)

References

• Bartlett, J.S. 2009: Taxonomic revision of Apteropilo Lea, 1908 (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Zootaxa, 2200: 41–53. Abstract & excerpt PDF
• Elston, A.H. 1929: Australian Coleoptera. Part VI. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia, 53: 347–352. PDF
• Kolibáč, J. 1997(1996): Classification of the subfamilies of Cleridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Acta Musei Moraviae, scientiae naturales (Brno), 81: 307–361.
• Lea, A.M. 1908: The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.), 20 (2): 143–207. Internet Archive Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Solervicens, J.A. 2005: A prothoracic character that defines the subfamily Korynetinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae). New Zealand entomologist, 28: 49–54. Abstract PDF

Links

• ION search for Apteropilo
• ION search for Pylusopsis
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Apteropilo
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Pylusopsis
• Australian Faunal Directory search for Apteropilo
• Australian Faunal Directory search for Pylusopsis