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Hemipeplus

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

  1. ^ 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.

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