Lepidotoramus

Genus of beetles

Lepidotoramus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Erotylidae
Tribe:
Empocryptini
Genus:
Lepidotoramus

Leschen, 1997

Lepidotoramus is a genus of beetles in the family Erotylidae.

The type species, and the only species currently placed within the genus, is L. grouvellei.[1] It was described in 1997 by Richard A. B. Leschen of Landcare Research, from museum specimens that had been collected in tropical lowland Ecuador and Brazil.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Lepidotoramus". BioLib.cz. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  2. ^ Leschen, Richard A. B. (1997). "The Empocryptus Group (Languriidae: Toraminae): Relationships and a New Genus Associated with a Lepidopteran Cocoon". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 51 (4): 303–318. JSTOR 4009300.
Taxon identifiers
Lepidotoramus


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