Elonus
{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Ant-like Leaf Beetle - Elonus basalis, Natchez Trace near Natchez, Mississippi.jpg
| image_caption = Elonus basalis
| taxon = Elonus
| authority = Casey, 1895
| display_parents = 2
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Elonus is a genus of ant-like leaf beetles in the family Aderidae. There are about seven described species in Elonus in North America.
Species
These seven species belong to the genus Elonus:
- Elonus basalis (LeConte, 1855)
- Elonus chisosensis Werner, 1993
- Elonus excavatus Werner, 1993
- Elonus gruberi Gompel, 2017
- Elonus hesperus Werner, 1990
- Elonus nebulosus (LeConte, 1875)
- Elonus simplex Werner, 1993
References
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{{Cite web| title=Elonus Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=679024
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}
{{Cite web| title=Elonus
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1047255
| website=GBIF
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}
{{Cite web| title=Elonus genus Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/59662
| website=BugGuide.net
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}
}}
Further reading
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- {{Cite journal
| title = The Nearctic species of Elonus (Coleoptera: Aderidae)
| date = 1993
| last1 = Werner | first1 = Floyd G.
| journal = Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
| volume = 99| issue = 4| pages = 245–264
| doi = 10.1155/1992/97483
| doi-access = free
| url = https://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1992/097483.pdf
}}
- {{Cite journal
| title = A review of North American Elonus species, with description of E. gruberi n. sp. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Aderidae)
| date = 2017
| last1 = Gompel | first1 = Nicolas
| journal = Zootaxa
| volume = 4338| issue = 3| pages = 533–545
| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.3.8
| pmid=29245717
| doi-access = free
}}
- {{Cite book
| title = Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Ripiphoridae, Prostomidae, Oedemeridae, Mycteridae, Pythidae, Aderidae, Scraptiidae, Critical checklist, distribution in Poland and meta-analysis
| date = 2014
| last1 = Kubisz | first1 = Daniel
| last2 = Iwan | first2 = Dariusz
| last3 = Tykarski | first3 = Piotr
| publisher = University of Warsaw - Faculty of Biology & Natura optima dux Foundation
| isbn = 978-83-935107-9-5
}}
- {{Cite book
| title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea
| date = 2013
| editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I.
| editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A.
| publisher = Apollo Books
| isbn = 978-90-04-26090-0
}}
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External links
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- {{Commons category-inline|Elonus}}
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