''Microbrontes'' is a genus 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 ...
s in the family
Laemophloeidae
Laemophloeidae, "lined flat bark beetles," is a family in the superfamily Cucujoidea characterized by predominantly dorso-ventrally compressed bodies, head and pronotal discs bordered by ridges or grooves, and inverted male genitalia. Size range ...
, containing the following species:
* ''
Microbrontes blackburni''
(Grouvelle, 1902) Lefkovitch 1958
* ''
Microbrontes laemophloeoides''
Reitter, 1874
* ''
Microbrontes lineatus''
(Broun, 1893) Lefkovitch 1958
The genus ''Tularthrum'' became classified as a
junior synonym
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linna ...
in 1958.
References
Laemophloeidae
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