Kupeus

Kupeus is a genus of wrinkled bark beetles in the family Carabidae.[1] Its only species is Kupeus arcuatus, is endemic to New Zealand.[2][3] K. arcuatus was originally described in 1873 by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolet and named Clinidium arcuatum.[4]

Kupeus
'Kupeus arcuatus'
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Tribe: Rhysodini
Subtribe: Rhysodina
Genus: Kupeus
R.T. Bell & J.R. Bell, 1982
Species

Kupeus arcuatus (Chevrolat, 1873)

References

  1. Gordon, Dennis P., ed. (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Vol. 2. Christchurch, NZ: Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-1-877257-93-3.
  2. "Kupeus R.T. & J.R. Bell, 1982". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 27 Mar 2012.
  3. Bell, Ross T. "Kupeus. Kupeus arcuatus. Version 01 March 2000". Tree of Life Project.
  4. Chevrolet, Auguste (1873). "Descriptions of new Rhysodides and enumeration of the species described". Annals of the Entomological Society of France. 5. 3: 207–218 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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