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''Lepidotoramus'' is a genus of beetles in the family
Erotylidae ''Ischyrus quadripunctatus'' Erotylidae, or the pleasing fungus beetles, is a family of beetles belonging to Cucujoidea containing over 100 genera. In the present circumscription, it contains 6 tribes (Tritomini, Dacnini, Megalodacnini, Er ...
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type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
, and the only species currently placed within the genus, is ''L. grouvellei''. It was described in 1997 by Richard A. B. Leschen of
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, from museum specimens that had been collected in tropical lowland
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