Cyrioides elateroides
| Cyrioides elateroides | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Superfamily: | Buprestoidea |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Cyrioides |
| Species: | C.elateroides |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyrioides elateroides (Saunders) 1872 | |
Cyrioides elateroides is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae native to southwest Western Australia. It was described by the English entomologist Edward Saunders in 1872, the type specimen collected along the Swan River.[1] Saunders noted it to be similar in coloration to the related C. vittigera but had its markings were patterned differently.[2]
References
- ↑ Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (9 October 2008). "Species Cyrioides elateroides (Saunders, 1872)". Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra ACT: Australian Government. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ↑ Saunders, Edward (1872). "Description of twenty new species of Buprestidae". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 20: 239–254. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1872.tb01889.x.
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