Campsosternus

Campsosternus
Temporal range: 37.2–0 Ma
Campsosternus auratus in Taipei city, Taiwan
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae
Subfamily: Denticollinae (Oxynopterinae)
Tribe: Oxynopterini
Subtribe: Oxynopterini
Genus: Campsosternus
Latreille, 1834
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Camposternus (Fowler, 1912)
  • Camposternus (Chenu, 1860)
  • Camposternus (Fleutiaux, 1927)
  • Camposternus (Miwa, 1929)
  • Camposternus (Hope, 1842)

Campsosternus is a genus of click beetles in the subfamily Denticollinae. The genus is extant but there is at least one described species from the Eocene of the Czech Republic.

Description of some species

There are many species, including:

  • Campsosternus auratus (Drury, 1773)
  • †Campsosternus atavus Deichmüller 1881[1] a fossil species found in an Eocene lacustrine small diatomite in Kutschlin near Bilin, in the Czech Republic
  • Campsosternus dohrni Westwood 1847
  • Campsosternus hopei Westwood 1847
  • Campsosternus stephensi (Hope, 1831)
  • Campsosternus gemma - the Rainbow sheath click beetle (彩虹叩頭蟲 in Chinese), a protected species in Taiwan
  • Campsosternus templetoni Westwood, 1848 (name is a tribute to Robert Templeton (1802–1892), a naturalist, artist and entomologist

See also

References

  1. ↑ J. V. Deichmüller. 1881. Fossile Insecten aus dem Diatomeenschiefer von Kutschlin bei Bilin, Böhmen. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 42:293-330


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