Revision of the Checkered Beetle Genus Placopterus Wolcott (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)

Weston Opitz

doi:10.4289/0013-8797.113.2.137

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Weston Opitz¹

¹Kansas Wesley an University, Department of Biology, 100 East Claflin Avenue, Salina, Kansas 67401-61

Abstract

The genus Placopterus Wolcott, comprised of Placopterus plumbeus (Gorham), Placopterus rufipes (Schenkling), and Placopterus thoracicus (Olivier), is revised. Enoclerus thoracicus var. pallipes Wolcott and Clerus thoracicus subcostatus Schaeffer are relegated junior synonyms of P. thoracicus. Placopterus is considered the sister taxon of Perilypus, and P. plumbeus and P. rufipes are assessed sister species. Placopterus thoracicus is considered the most morphologically apomorphic of the genus. Lectotypes are designated for Poecilochroa plumbea Gorham, P. rufipes, and Clerus thoracicus Olivier

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Weston Opitz "Revision of the Checkered Beetle Genus Placopterus Wolcott (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)," Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 113(2), 137-153, (1 April 2011). https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.113.2.137

Published: 1 April 2011

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