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Genus Neocallotillus

Callotillus elegans vafer Wolcott - Neocallotillus elegans - male

Neocallotillus elegans (Erichson) - Neocallotillus elegans

Callotillus vafer Wolcott - Neocallotillus elegans

Cool red ant-like beetle with swollen pronotum - Neocallotillus elegans

Clerid from Mesquite? - 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)

Works Cited

1.	Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Callotillus Wolcott (Cleridae, Tillinae), with the description of the new genus ... Alan F Burke, Gregory Zolnerowich. 2016. ZooKeys 617: 65-89.

2.	A checklist of the New World species of Tillinae (Coleoptera: Cleridae), with an illustrated key to genera... Burke A.F., Leavengood J.M., Zolnerowich G. 2015. Zootaxa 4059: 1‒39.

Contributed by Jeff Gruber on 18 June, 2009 - 5:20pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 22 January, 2018 - 10:32pm

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