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Plagiosarus melampus
Plagiosarus melampus is the scientific name of a group -also called lamiines or flat-faced longhorned beetles-
Plagiosarus melampus Bates, 1885
H.W. Bates is the author of the original taxon.
The type specimen used for original description is cited from Quezaltenango.
Plagiosarus melampus Bates, 1885 is the full name of the group-species in the taxonomic classification system.
The species divided into 2 subspecies, is combined with the genus Plagiosarus ranked in the tribe Acanthoderini.
Classification
kingdom | |
Animalia | |
~1,200,000 sp. | |
phylum | |
Arthropoda | |
~1,000,000 sp. | |
class | |
Insecta | |
~830,000 sp. | |
order | |
Coleoptera | |
~350,000 sp. | |
family | |
Cerambycidae | |
~35,000 sp. | |
subfamily | |
Lamiinae | |
21,951 sp/ssp. | |
tribe | |
Acanthoderini | |
475 sp/ssp. | |
genus | |
Plagiosarus | |
5 sp/ssp. | |
species | |
melampus | |
2 subsp. |
Region
World [2]

Distribution for subspecies of Plagiosarus melampus
Group
melampus [2]
Subgroup of
List of species
Taxa, synonyms
2 taxa refer to Plagiosarus melampus
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Plagiosarus melampus Bates, 1885 [ type locality : Guatemala, Quezaltenango, El Reposo ]
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Plagiosarus melampus var. congestus Bates, 1885 [ type locality : Panama, ChiriquÃ, Bugaba ]
Bibliography
Some citations found in the bibliography excluding lists and catalogs except with nomenclatural act or image or data
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Plagiosarus melampus Bates • Biol. Centr. Amer. • 1885 • 5 : 383 [ nov loc ill ]
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Plagiosarus melampus var. congestus Bates • Biol. Centr. Amer. • 1885 • 5 : 383 [ nov loc ill ]
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Plagiosarus melampus ; Chemsak & Linsley • J. Kansas Ent. Soc. • 1970 • 43 (4) : 416 [ div ]
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Plagiosaurus melampus ; Chemsak & al. • Univ. Nac. Auton. Mexico • 1992 : 132
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Plagiosaurus melampus congestus ; Chemsak & al. • Univ. Nac. Auton. Mexico • 1992 : 132
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Plagiosarus melampus congestus ; Vlasak & Santos-Silva • Insecta Mundi • 2023 • 1025 : 5 [ div ]details
Plagiosarus melampus congestus ; Vlasak & Santos-Silva • Insecta Mundi • 2023 • 1025 : 5
General information
- distinctive characters ; remark