Arractocetus Kurosawa, 1985

Lawrence, John F., 2020, The Australian Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Tenerionoidea) with one new genus and two genera new to Australia, Zootaxa 4895 (2), pp. 211-238 : 223

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:77117CFB-AD8E-4066-819F-FA81D3D589B7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4333485

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3735BF36-A004-5D78-FF46-91EC766EF9DD

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scientific name

Arractocetus Kurosawa, 1985
status

 

Arractocetus Kurosawa, 1985 View in CoL

Arractocetus Kurosawa, 1985: 112 View in CoL .

Type species: Atractocerus nipponicus Nakane, 1985 (original designation).

Diagnosis. Species of Arractocetus are distinguished from other atractocerines by the head, which is declined, flattened above and abruptly declined posteriorly, the head and pronotum densely clothed with hairs, the pronotum subquadrate with a distinct median groove, and the hind wings often darkened or metallic. Eyes in this genus are very finely facetted, with individual facets flattened rather than convex.

Distrubution. Arractocetus is primarily an Oriental genus, distributed from India to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia, the Philippines, Taiwan and southern Japan.

Biology. As noted by Kurosawa (1985), the eye type in this genus is indicative of diurnal habits and the colour patterns appear to mimic those of various Hymenoptera.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lymexylidae

Loc

Arractocetus Kurosawa, 1985

Lawrence, John F. 2020
2020
Loc

Arractocetus

Kurosawa, Y. 1985: 112
1985
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