Holostrophus bifasciatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea
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: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tetratomidae
Subfamilia: Eustrophinae
Tribus: Eustrophini
Genus: Eustrophopsis
Species: Holostrophus bifasciatus

Name

Holostrophus bifasciatus (Say, 1824: 282)

Neotype: MCZ “[faded pink circle] / E. bifasciatus Say 4-maculatus Mels.” (designated by Pollock 2008).

Type locality: “Inhabits United States ... I obtained a specimen many years ago near Philadelphia, and we lately captured another in the North-Western Territory”.

Mentions

Mycetophagus 4 maculatus Melsheimer 1806: 14 [catalogue].—(“Pennsylvania”).
Eustrophus bifasciatus Say 1824: 282.—Melsheimer 1853: 143; Crotch 1873: 112; Henshaw 1885: 124.
Eustrophus 4-maculatus Melsheimer 1846: 58.—Melsheimer 1853: 143 (syn.); Leng 1920: 238; Csiki 1924: 9; Poole and Gentili 1996: 299; LeSage 1991: 246.
Holostrophus bifasciatus (Say).—Horn 1888: 36; Champion 1898: 66; Blatchley 1910: 1293; Leng 1920: 238; Csiki 1924: 9; Poole and Gentili 1996: 299; LeSage 1991: 246; Young and Pollock 2002: 416; Pollock 2008: 271, 290; Majka and Pollock 2010: 455.; Pollock, 2012: figs 3, 16, 28, 40, 66.

References

Say, T., 1824: Class Insecta. In: Keating W.H. (Ed.). Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter’s River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, Major U.S.T.E. Vol. II. Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, 268–378.