Melalgus

Melalgus

Melalgus batillus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Bostrichidae
Subfamily:	Polycaoninae
Genus:	*Melalgus* Dejean, 1833

Melalgus is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are at least 20 described species in Melalgus.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Melalgus femoralis

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Melalgus:

Melalgus amoenus (Lesne, 1911)^{i c g}
Melalgus batillus (Lesne, 1902)^{i c g}
Melalgus borneensis (Lesne, 1911)^{i c g}
Melalgus caribeanus (Lesne, 1906)^{i c g}
Melalgus confertus (LeConte, 1866)^{i c g b} (branch and twig borer)
Melalgus crassulus (Lesne, 1911)^{i c g}
Melalgus digueti (Lesne, 1911)^{i c g}
Melalgus exesus (LeConte, 1858)^{i c g}
Melalgus feanus (Lesne, 1899)^{i c g}
Melalgus femoralis (Fabricius, 1792)^{i c g}
Melalgus gonagrus (Fabricius, 1798)^{i c g}
Melalgus gracilipes (Blanchard, 1843)^{i c g}
Melalgus jamaicensis (Lesne, 1906)^{i c g}
Melalgus japonicum Chûjô, 1973^{i g}
Melalgus longitarsus (Lesne, 1911)^{i c g}
Melalgus megalops (Fall, 1901)^{i c g}
Melalgus parvidens (Lesne, 1895)^{i c g}
Melalgus parvulus (Lesne, 1925)^{i c g}
Melalgus plicatus (LeConte, 1874)^{i c g b}
Melalgus rufipes (Blanchard, 1843)^{i c g}
Melalgus strigipennis (Lesne, 1937)^{i c g}
Melalgus subdepressus (Lesne, 1897)^{i c g}
Melalgus talpula (Lesne, 1911)^{i c g}
Melalgus truncatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)^{i c g}
Melalgus valleculatus (Lesne, 1913)^{i c g}

Data sources: i = ITIS,^[1] c = Catalogue of Life,^[2] g = GBIF,^[3] b = Bugguide.net^[4]

References

1 2 "Melalgus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
1 2 "Browse Melalgus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
1 2 "Melalgus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
1 2 "Melalgus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-02.

Further reading

Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
Borowski, Jerzy; Wegrzynowicz, Piotr (2007). World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera). Wydawnictwo Mantis. ISBN 9788392618218.
Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
Fisher, W.S. (1950). "A revision of the North American species of beetles belonging to the family Bostrichidae". United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication (698): 1–157.
Ivie, Michael A. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, Michael C.; Skelley, Paul E., eds. Family 69. Bostrichidae Latreille 1802. American Beetles volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 233–244. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
Solomon, J.D. (1995). Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook.
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

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