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Xerolinus
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus ''Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie species description, described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially species description, described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name (biology), generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine grammatical gender, gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerolinus Caymanensis
''Xerolinus'' is a genus of darkling beetle. It consists of approximately thirty species found in the West Indies. Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart named and circumscribed the genus in 2016. Taxonomic history The genus ''Xerolinus'' was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed in 2016 by Montana State University coleopterists Michael A. Ivie and Charles J. Hart. They initially included twenty-nine species, which were mostly transferred from the genus ''Diastolinus''. In a separate 2016 paper, Hart and Ivie species description, described two new ''Xerolinus'' species. Ivie and Hart designated ''X. sallei'', which French etymologists Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey initially species description, described as ''Diastolinus sallei'' in 1859, to be the type species of ''Xerolinus''. The generic name (biology), generic name ''Xerolinus'' has a masculine grammatical gender, gender. Its etymology comes from the Greek (''xērós''; "dry, arid") combined with the ending of the generi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |