Melalgus
{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
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| image = Melalgus batillus.jpg
| image_caption = Melalgus batillus
| taxon = Melalgus
| authority = Dejean, 1833
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Melalgus is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melalgus.
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Species
These 25 species belong to the genus Melalgus:
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- Melalgus amoenus (Lesne, 1911)
- Melalgus batillus (Lesne, 1902)
- Melalgus borneensis (Lesne, 1911)
- Melalgus caribeanus (Lesne, 1906)
- Melalgus confertus (LeConte, 1866) (branch and twig borer)
- Melalgus crassulus (Lesne, 1911)
- Melalgus digueti (Lesne, 1911)
- Melalgus exesus (LeConte, 1858)
- Melalgus feanus (Lesne, 1899)
- Melalgus femoralis (Fabricius, 1792)
- Melalgus gonagrus (Fabricius, 1798)
- Melalgus gracilipes (Blanchard, 1843)
- Melalgus jamaicensis (Lesne, 1906)
- Melalgus japonicum Chûjô, 1973
- Melalgus longitarsus (Lesne, 1911)
- Melalgus megalops (Fall, 1901)
- Melalgus parvidens (Lesne, 1895)
- Melalgus parvulus (Lesne, 1925)
- Melalgus plicatus (LeConte, 1874)
- Melalgus rufipes (Blanchard, 1843)
- Melalgus strigipennis (Lesne, 1937)
- Melalgus subdepressus (Lesne, 1897)
- Melalgus talpula (Lesne, 1911)
- Melalgus truncatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
- Melalgus valleculatus (Lesne, 1913)
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References
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{{Cite web| title=Melalgus Report
| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=817262
| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melalgus
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4761308
| website=GBIF
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melalgus genus Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/385839
| website=BugGuide.net
| accessdate=2019-09-24
}}
{{Cite journal
| title = Catalogue of the world genera and subgenera of the superfamilies Derodontoidea and Bostrichoidea (Coleoptera: Derodontiformia, Bostrichiformia)
| date = 2014
| last1 = Zahradník | first1 = Petr
| last2 = Háva | first2 = Jiří
| journal = Zootaxa
| volume = 3754| issue = 4| pages = 301–52
| url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285634873
| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.1
| pmid=24869695
}}
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Further reading
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- {{Cite journal
| title = Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs
| date = 1995
| last1 = Solomon | first1 = J. D.
| journal = USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook
| url = https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/22150
}}
- {{Cite journal
| title = A revision of the North American species of beetles belonging to the family Bostrichidae
| date = 1950
| last1 = Fisher | first1 = W. S.
| journal = United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication
| issue = 698| pages = 1–157
| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/65663
| hdl=2027/uva.x030450778
}}
- {{Cite book
| title = World Catalogue of Bostrichidae (Coleoptera)
| date = 2007
| last1 = Borowski | first1 = Jerzy
| last2 = Wegrzynowicz | first2 = Piotr
| publisher = Wydawnictwo Mantis
| isbn = 9788392618218
}}
- {{Cite book
| title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea
| date = 2007
| editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I.
| editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A.
| publisher = Apollo Books
| isbn = 978-8788757675
}}
- {{Cite book
| title = Death-watch and spider beetles of Wisconsin (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)
| date = 2012
| last1 = Arango | first1 = Rachel A.
| last2 = Young | first2 = Daniel K.
| publisher = U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
| series = General Technical Report| volume = FPL–GTR–209
| url = http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr209.pdf
}}
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External links
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- {{Commons category-inline|Melalgus}}
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