Cordylospasta is a genus of blister beetles in the family Meloidae. There are at least two described species in Cordylospasta.[1][2][3]

Cordylospasta
Female (upper) and male (lower) individuals of Cordylospasta opaca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Meloidae
Subfamily: Meloinae
Tribe: Eupomphini
Genus: Cordylospasta
Horn, 1875

Species edit

These two species belong to the genus Cordylospasta:

References edit

  1. ^ "Cordylospasta Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. ^ "Cordylospasta". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading edit

  • Pinto, John D. (1972). "A taxonomic revision of the genus Cordylospasta (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with an analysis of geographic variation in C. opaca". The Canadian Entomologist. 104 (8): 1161–1180. doi:10.4039/Ent1041161-8. S2CID 85649180.
  • Pinto, J. D.; Bologna, M. A. (1999). "The New World genera of Meloidae (Coleoptera): a key and synopsis". Journal of Natural History. 33 (4): 569–620. Bibcode:1999JNatH..33..569P. doi:10.1080/002229399300254.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.