''Ethiopoeus'' is a

monotypic genus In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

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 ...

s in the family

Buprestidae Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some ...

, the jewel beetles. The sole species, ''Ethiopoeus croesus'' was moved from genus ''

Meliboeus ''Meliboeus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles. They are distributed throughout the Palearctic realm, Palearctic, Afrotropical realm, Afrotropical, and Indomalayan realms. As of 2008, there were 227 species. Sp ...

'' in 2008. This beetle is native to

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

.Bellamy, C. L. (2008)
New taxa, distribution and biological records of Afrotropical Coraebini Bedel, 1921 (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae).
''Zootaxa'' 1848 1-15.

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Monotypic Buprestidae genera Beetles of Africa {{Buprestidae-stub