Autocrates (beetle)

Autocrates
Autocrates aeneus (male)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Superfamily: Tenebrionoidea
Family: Trictenotomidae
Genus: Autocrates
Thomson, 1860

Autocrates is a genus of beetles in the Trictenotomidae family with species across the Indomalayan realm. They are sexually dimorphic with males having longer and more sinuate mandibles.[1]

Species

Six species have been described:[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Lin, Meiying; Drumont, Alain; Yang, Xingke (2007). "The genus Autocrates Thomson in China: occurrence and geographical distribution of species (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae)" (PDF). Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 77: 147–156.
  2. ^ Zicha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz.
  3. ^ Descarpentries, André; Villiers, André (1973). "Notes sur le genre Autocrates [Col. Trictenotomidae]". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 78: 253–256.
  4. ^ Drumont, Alain (2016). "Nouvelle contribution à l'étude du genre Autocrates Thomson, 1860 avec la description d'une nouvelle espèce du Vietnam: A. ivanovi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae)" (PDF). Revista gaditana de Entomología. 7 (1): 25–36.
  5. ^ Hu, Fang-Shuo; Drumont, Alain; Telnov, Dmitry (2022). "A New Autocrates J. Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Trictenotomidae) from Dayaoshan, S China: The Importance of Biodiversity Refugia". Annales Zoologici. 72 (3): 371–388.


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