Melasis buprestoides

Melasis buprestoides is a species of false click beetles native to Europe.[2][3]

Melasis buprestoides
Melasis bupestroides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Family:
Eucnemidae
Genus:
Melasis
Species:
M. buprestoides
Binomial name
Melasis buprestoides
(Linnaeus, 1761) [1]

The species name buprestoides (from the beetle genus Buprestis, and Ancient Greek ειδής eidēs, "like") refers to the species' body shape.[4] Linnaeus's original name for the beetle was Elater buprestoides. The genus name Melasis (from Ancient Greek μέλας mélas, "black") refers to the black color of the member species' body.[5]

Description

The cylindrical beetle is between six and nine millimeters long. The body's greatest width occurs on the leading edge of the scutum.

References
  1. Linnaeus, C., 1761 Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciæ Regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes. Distributa per classes & ordines, genera & species, cum differentiis specierum, synonymis auctorum, nominibus incolarum, locis natalium, descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. 578 pp. Laurentii Salvii (Stockholm)
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. Norman H. Joy, , 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
  4. Schenkling, Sigmund. "Erklärung der wissenschaftlichen Käfernamen (Art)" (in German).
  5. Schenkling, Sigmund. "Erklärung der wissenschaftlichen Käfernamen (Gattung)" (in German).


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