Campsosternus is a genus of click beetles in the subfamily Dendrometrinae. The genus is extant but there is at least one described species from the Eocene of the Czech Republic.
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| Campsosternus auratus in Taipei city, Taiwan | |
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| Genus: | Campsosternus Latreille, 1834
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Description of some species edit
There are many species, including:
- Campsosternus auratus (Drury, 1773)
- †Campsosternus atavus Deichmüller 1881[1] a fossil species found in an Eocene lacustrine small diatomite in Kutschlin near Bilin, in the Czech Republic
- Campsosternus dohrni Westwood 1847
- Campsosternus hopei Westwood 1847
- Campsosternus stephensi (Hope, 1831)
- Campsosternus gemma - the Rainbow sheath click beetle (彩虹叩頭蟲 in Chinese), a protected species in Taiwan
- Campsosternus templetoni Westwood, 1848 (name is a tribute to Robert Templeton (1802–1892), a naturalist, artist and entomologist
See also edit
References edit
- ^ J. V. Deichmüller. 1881. Fossile Insecten aus dem Diatomeenschiefer von Kutschlin bei Bilin, Böhmen. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 42:293-330
External links edit
Media related to Campsosternus at Wikimedia Commons- "Campsosternus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- "Campsosternus". Fossilworks. Gateway to the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- Campsosternus at Biolib.cz
- Campsosternus at insectoid.info
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