''Mauroniscus'' is a genus of
beetles
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
Mauroniscidae
Mauroniscidae is a family of cleroid beetles, formerly included in the family Melyridae. There are presently five or six genera and roughly 30 described species in Mauroniscidae, all of which are native to the Americas. Almost nothing is known a ...
, historically included in the family
Melyridae. The ten known species of this genus are found in
South America
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in the countries of
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
,
Bolivia
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,
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
,
Columbia
Columbia may refer to:
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Places North America Natural features
* Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...
,
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
, and
Peru
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, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
.
Species
* ''
Mauroniscus apicalis''
(Pic, 1910)
* ''
Mauroniscus boliviensis''
Majer, 1995
* ''
Mauroniscus chiliensis''
Estrada & Solervicens, 2021[Estrada, P. and J. Solervicens. 2021. Description of a new species of ''Mauroniscus'' Bourgeois, 1911 from Chile (Coleoptera: Mauroniscidae). Zootaxa 4915(1): 127-132.]
* ''
Mauroniscus discipennis''
(Pic, 1910)
* ''
Mauroniscus germaini''
Majer, 1995
* ''
Mauroniscus maculatus''
(Pic, 1927)
* ''
Mauroniscus roberti''
Bourgeois, 1911
* ''
Mauroniscus subfasciatus''
(Pic, 1910)
* ''
Mauroniscus titschaki''
(Pic, 1954)
* ''
Mauroniscus wayrauchi''
Majer, 1995
References
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Cleroidea
Cleroidea genera