Hemipeplus

Hemipeplus
Dorsal view of an adult Hemipeplus chaos beetle. Length: 4.2 mm
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Mycteridae
Genus:
Latreille, 1825

Hemipeplus is a genus of beetles in the family Mycteridae. There are 57 described species in Hemipeplus.[1][2][3] These beetles are pantropical in distribution and primarily mycophagous.[4][5]

Species

The following species are included in the genus Hemipeplus:[1]

New World Hemipeplinae

  1. Hemipeplus abditus Pollock, 1999
  2. Hemipeplus angustipennis Pollock, 1999
  3. Hemipeplus anishae KC & Pollock, 2025
  4. Hemipeplus argentinus Pollock, 1999
  5. Hemipeplus belizensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  6. Hemipeplus bolivianus Pollock, 1999
  7. Hemipeplus brasiliensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  8. Hemipeplus chaos Thomas, 1985
  9. Hemipeplus dominicensis Pollock, 1999
  10. Hemipeplus gounellei Grouvelle, 1896
  11. Hemipeplus hemipterus Lacordaire, 1854
  12. Hemipeplus insularis Grouvelle, 1896
  13. Hemipeplus longiscapus Pollock, 1999
  14. Hemipeplus mexicanus Grouvelle, 1896
  15. Hemipeplus microphthalmus (Schwarz, 1878)
  16. Hemipeplus pollocki KC, 2025
  17. Hemipeplus pseudoquadricollis KC & Pollock, 2025
  18. Hemipeplus quadricollis Pollock, 1999
  19. Hemipeplus thomasi Pollock, 1999

Afrotropical Hemipeplinae

  1. Hemipeplus africanus Grouvelle, 1915
  2. Hemipeplus alluaudi Grouvelle, 1923
  3. Hemipeplus dollmani Scott, 1933
  4. Hemipeplus egregius Arrow, 1930
  5. Hemipeplus grouvellei Pollock, 1997
  6. Hemipeplus madagascariensis Grouvelle, 1906
  7. Hemipeplus reichertae Pollock, 1997
  8. Hemipeplus rodericensis Scott, 1933
  9. Hemipeplus suturalis Grouvelle, 1919

Austro-Oriental Hemipeplinae

  1. Hemipeplus antennatus KC & Pollock, 2025
  2. Hemipeplus australicus Arrow, 1930
  3. Hemipeplus bromineus KC & Pollock, 2025
  4. Hemipeplus bucculentus KC & Pollock, 2025
  5. Hemipeplus craigi KC & Pollock, 2025
  6. Hemipeplus enarotaliensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  7. Hemipeplus exhaustus KC & Pollock, 2025
  8. Hemipeplus gressitti KC & Pollock, 2025
  9. Hemipeplus harkoneni KC & Pollock, 2025
  10. Hemipeplus heisenbergi KC & Pollock, 2025
  11. Hemipeplus joerebeccae KC & Pollock, 2025
  12. Hemipeplus klematanicus (Gestro, 1873)
  13. Hemipeplus labuanensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  14. Hemipeplus luzonensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  15. Hemipeplus manusicus KC & Pollock, 2025
  16. Hemipeplus monteithi KC & Pollock, 2025
  17. Hemipeplus miyamotoi Kamiya, 1961
  18. Hemipeplus neoaustralicus KC & Pollock, 2025
  19. Hemipeplus neoguineensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  20. Hemipeplus nigerrimus KC & Pollock, 2025
  21. Hemipeplus nuciferae Arrow, 1930
  22. Hemipeplus palawanensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  23. Hemipeplus philippinensis KC & Pollock, 2025
  24. Hemipeplus pseudoklematanicus KC & Pollock, 2025
  25. Hemipeplus rugosus KC & Pollock, 2025
  26. Hemipeplus saymyname KC & Pollock, 2025
  27. Hemipeplus sinensis KC & Pollock, 2025

References

  1. ^ a b Sajan, K.C. & Pollock, D.A. (2025). "Review of the Hemipeplinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) fauna of the world with descriptions of twenty-nine new species". Zootaxa. 5574 (1): 001–140.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Pollock, D.A. (1997). "Review of the Afrotropical species of Hemipeplus Latreille (Coleoptera: Mycteridae: Hemipeplinae)". Annales Zoologici. 47 (1/2): 79–92.
  3. ^ Pollock, D.A. (1999). "Review of the New World Hemipeplinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) with descriptions of ten new species". Entomologica Scandinavica. 30 (1): 47–73.
  4. ^ Thomas, M.C. & Woodruff, R.E. (1986) Description of the larvae of two species of Hemipeplus Latreille (Coleoptera: Mycteridae). Insecta Mundi, 1, 121–124.
  5. ^ Thomas, M.C. (1985) The species of Hemipeplus Latreille (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) in Florida, with a taxonomic history of the genus. Coleopterists Bulletin, 39 (4), 365–375.
  • Pollock, Darren A. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 112. Mycteridae Blanchard 1845". American Beetles, vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 530–533.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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