Elateroides Explained

Elateroides is a genus of rarely found beetles in the family Lymexylidae, containing the following species:^[1]

Species

• Elateroides dermestoides (Linnaeus, 1761)
• Elateroides flabellicornis (Schneider, 1791)
• Elateroides lugubris (Say, 1835)

Taxonomy

Nardi 2019 writes (p. 597) "Bollow (1940: 867) described Hylecoetus dermestoides L. ab. nigrocephalus, H. dermestoides L. ab. Reitteri and H. dermestoides L. ab. Stoeckleini from Germany, but they are unavailable infrasubspecific names."

References

• Nardi, G. 2019. Synonymic notes on European Lymexylidae (Coleoptera). Zootaxa 4450(4): 597–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.4.11

Notes and References

1. http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Arthropoda/Insects/Coleoptera/Family/Lymexylidae.txt Lymexylidae Species List