''Ranqueles'' is a
genus
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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
Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than ...
. The genus was
circumscribed
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by French entomologist
Pierre-Émile Gounelle
Pierre-Émile Gounelle (Paris, 9 June 1850 – 2 October 1914, Paris) was a French entomologist and naturalist.
Son of engineer, Eugène Gounelle, who installed the first telegraph line from Paris via Rouen to Le Havre, Pierre-Émile also trained ...
in 1906, with the South American ''
R. mus'' assigned as the
type, and at that time, only species.
It now contains the following species:
[Bezark, Larry G]
A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World
Retrieved on 22 May 2012.
* ''
Ranqueles gounellei''
Bosq, 1947
* ''
Ranqueles mus''
Gounelle, 1906
* ''
Ranqueles steparius''
Di Iorio, 1996
References
Bothriospilini
Cerambycidae genera
Beetles of South America
Taxa described in 1906
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