Muisca cylindricollis

Muisca cylindricollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Cleroidea
Family: Cleridae
Subfamily: Clerinae or Enopliinae
Genus: Muisca
Species: M. cylindricollis
Binomial name
Muisca cylindricollis
(Peracchi, 1962)[1]
Synonyms

Cregya cylindricollis
Paracregya cylindricollis

Muisca cylindricollis is a species of checkered beetles of the genus Muisca in the subfamily of Clerinae or Enopliinae. It was first described by zoologist Adriano Lúcio Peracchi in 1962 as Cregya cylindricollis.[1] The same author reclassified the species as Paracregya cylindricollis in 1964.[2] Paracregya cylindricollis was reclassified as Muisca cylindricollis by Ekis in 1975.[3] The genus is been named after the Muisca from the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in central Colombia.[4]

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