Techmessa longicollis

Taxonavigation

Techmessa longicollis (male), length about 7 mm

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: Pyrochroidae
Subfamilia: Pilipalpinae
Genus: Techmessa
Species: Techmessa longicollis

Name

• Techmessa longicollis Broun, 1903: 70
  • Authority for current placement: original
    • undisputed by all subsequent authorities
  • Original genus: Techmessa Bates, 1874
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: unique ('One example ...')
    • Description: [adult] male
    • Repository: BMNH
  • Type locality: 'Tarukenga, near Rotorua'

References

selected references

• Broun, T. 1903: Descriptions of new genera and species of New Zealand Coleoptera (concluded from vol. xi. p. 618). Annals and magazine of natural history (7), 12(67): 69–86. DOI: 10.1080/00222930308678830[broken/unregistered!] BHL BUGZ Internet Archive
• Pollock, D.A. 1995: Classification, reconstructed phylogeny and geographical history of genera of Pilipalpinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Pyrochroidae). Invertebrate taxonomy, 9(4): 563–708. DOI: 10.1071/IT9950563 BioStor
• Watt, J.C. 1987: The family and subfamily classification and New Zealand genera of Pythidae and Scraptiidae (Coleoptera). Systematic entomology, 12(1): 111–136. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1987.tb00552.x

Additional references

• Macfarlane, R.P., Maddison, P.A., Andrew, I.G., Berry, J.A., Johns, P.M., Hoare, R.J.B., Larivière, M.-C., Greenslade, P., Henderson, R.C., Smithers, C.N., Palma, R.L., Ward, J.B., Pilgrim, R.L.C., Towns, D.R., McLellan, I., Teulon, D.A.J., Hitchings, T.R., Eastop, V.F., Martin, N.A., Fletcher, M.J., Stufkens, M.A.W., Dale, P.J., Burckhardt, D., Buckley, T.R. & Trewick, S.A. 2010. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233–467 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page.  [listed, p. 427]