Aegithus clavicornis (Linnaeus)

Orden COLEOPTERA Linnaeus, 1758
Suborden POLYPHAGA
Serie CUCUJIFORMIA
SUPERFAMILIA CUCUJOIDEA Latreille, 1802
FAMILIA EROTYLIDAE Latreille, 1802
Tribu Erotylini Latreille, 1802

Aegithus clavicornis (Linnaeus)

fuente: Skelley, P.E. 2009

Chrysomela clavicornis Linnaeus 1758: 370; Erotylus clavicornis (Linnaeus) ~ Olivier 1792: Aegithus clavicornis (Linnaeus) ~ Fabricius 1801: Coccinella surinamensis Linnaeus 1763: 393

Distribución geográfica: widespread in tropical America from Mexico to Argentina. In the West Indies it is known only from the Dominican Republic (Medrano-Cabral 2009) where it has been recently established, and Grenada where it is apparently native.
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REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS:

Blackwelder, R.E., 1945; (Languridae, Cryptophagidae (Telmatophilinae), Erotylidae) Checklist of the coleopterous insects of México, Central America, The West Indies, and South America. U.S. National Museum Bulletin, 185 (3):425-427, 427-428, 456-469

Bouchard, Patrice ; Yves Bousquet; Anthony E. Davies; Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga; John F. Lawrence; Chris H. C. Lyal; Alfred F. Newton; Chris A. M. Reid; Michael Schmitt; S. Adam Ślipiński; Andrew B. T. Smith. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972 (april, 2011)

Lawrence, J. F. and A. F. Newton, Jr. 1995. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). pp. 779-1006 in: J. Pakaluk and S.A. Slipinski (eds.): Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Museum i Instytut Zoologii PAN, Warszawa.

Leschen, R. A. B.; Beutel, R. G. and Lawrence, J. F. (Editors); Slipinski, A. (Associate editor). 2009. Handbook of zoology. Coleoptera, Beetles, vol. 2: Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim).

Skelley, P.E. 2009. Pleasing fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Erotylinae) Insecta Mundi 0082: 1-94