Wattadelium

Wattadelium sp.

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: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Lagriinae
Tribus: Adeliini
Genera: Wattadelium
Species: W. alienum – W. curtulum – W. pleurale

Name

Wattadelium Emberson, 2000

Gender: neuter

Type species: Edalus opacus Broun, 1893 [=Adelium alienum Broun, 1880], by subsequent designation by Gebien (1942: 746)

Synonyms

• Edalus Broun, 1893 [nec Edalus Broun, 1886]
  • Wattadelium Emberson, 2000

References

• Emberson, R.M. 2000. The many names of the colydiine beetle Rytinotus squamulosus Broun (Coleoptera: Zopheridae), and a replacement name for Edalus Broun, 1893 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). New Zealand entomologist 23: 23–25.
• Watt, J.C. 1992. Tenebrionidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): catalogue of types and keys to taxa. Fauna of New Zealand (26)