''Coptops liturata'' is a species of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
in the family
Cerambycidae
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. It was described by
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug
Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in Berlin – 3 February 1856, in Berlin), was a German entomologist.
He described the butterflies and some other insects of Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Friedric ...
in 1833, originally under the genus ''
Lamia
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''. It is known from
Madagascar
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.
"''Coptops liturata'' (Klug, 1833)"
''BioLib''. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
References
liturata
Beetles described in 1833
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