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Genus Neocallotillus

Callotillus elegans vafer Wolcott - Neocallotillus elegans - male Neocallotillus elegans (Erichson) - Neocallotillus elegans Neocallotillus elegans (Erichson)  - Neocallotillus elegans   - Neocallotillus elegans Cool red ant-like beetle with swollen pronotum - Neocallotillus elegans Cool red ant-like beetle with swollen pronotum - Neocallotillus elegans Cool red ant-like beetle with swollen pronotum - Neocallotillus elegans Neocallotillus - Neocallotillus elegans
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Cleroidea
Family Cleridae (Checkered Beetles)
Subfamily Tillinae
Genus Neocallotillus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The subspecies Callotillus elegans vafer Wolcott is synonymized with the nominal subspecies, Callotillus elegans elegans (Erichson), which is transferred to, and designated as the type species of Neocallotillus gen. n. as Neocallotillus elegans (Erichson, 1847), comb. n. (1)
Syn: Callotillus Wolcott 1911
Explanation of Names
Neocallotillus Burke 2016
Numbers
2 spp. (2)
Identification
no antennal club
Range
sw. US & s. FL / Mex. to Peru (2)
Print References
Burke, A.F., and G. Zolnerowich. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Callotillus Wolcott (Cleridae, Tillinae), with the description of the new genus Neocallotillus, and an illustrated key of identification to species. ZooKeys 617: 65-89. (1)