Tenomerga Explained

Tenomerga is a genus of beetles in the family Cupedidae. This genus has about 17 extant species, which are native to the eastern Palearctic, Nearctic and Oriental regions.^[1]

In a recent phylogenetic analysis, the species Tenomerga leucophaea was found to form a monophyletic group with Cupes capitatus and Rhipsideigma, rendering Tenomerga polyphyletic.^[2] Because of this, some researchers have proposed transferring T. leucophaea to Cupes.^[3]

Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Tenomerga:

• Tenomerga anguliscutis (Kolbe, 1886)

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• Tenomerga cinerea (Say, 1831)

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• Tenomerga favella Neboiss, 1984

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• Tenomerga gaolingziensis Ge and Yang, 2004

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• Tenomerga japonica (Tamanuki, 1928)

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• Tenomerga kapnodes Neboiss, 1984

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• Tenomerga kurosawai Miyatake, 1986

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• Tenomerga leucophaea (Newman, 1839)

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• Tenomerga moultonii (Gestro, 1910)

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• Tenomerga mucida (Chevrolat, 1844)

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• Tenomerga sibyllae (Klapperich, 1950)

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• Tenomerga tianmuensis Ge and Yang, 2004

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• Tenomerga trabecula Neboiss, 1984

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• Tenomerga yamato Miyatake, 1985

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Notes and References

1. Wang . Cheng-Bin . Hájek . Jiří . 2018-12-03 . Two new species of Tenomerga Neboiss from eastern Asia (Coleoptera: Cupedidae) . Zootaxa . 4526 . 4 . 531 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.4.6 . 30651504 . 58594117 . 1175-5334.
2. Hörnschemeyer. T.. 2009. The species-level phylogeny of archostematan beetles-where do Micromalthus debilis and Crowsoniella relicta belong?. Systematic Entomology. 34. 3. 533–558. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00476.x. 2009SysEn..34..533H . 84795808 .
3. Rodríguez-Mirón. G.M.. López-Pérez. S.. 2019. A new reticulated beetle (Coleoptera: Cupedidae) from Mexico with a catalogue of Cupedidae species of the world. Zootaxa. 4567. 1. 147–160. 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.8. 31716443 . 92211457 .