''Cephaloon'' is a genus of false longhorn beetles in the family
Stenotrachelidae
Stenotrachelidae, commonly called false longhorn beetles is a family of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. They are native to the Holarctic region. The larvae feed on heavily decomposed wood, while the adults are likely short lived and ...
. There are about 6 described species in ''Cephaloon''.
Species
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Cephaloon bicolor
''Cephaloon bicolor'' is a species of false longhorn beetle in the family Stenotrachelidae
Stenotrachelidae, commonly called false longhorn beetles is a family of beetles in the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. They are native to the Holarctic re ...
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Horn, 1896
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Cephaloon lepturides''
Newman, 1838 (false leptura beetle)
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Cephaloon pacificum''
Van Dyke, 1928
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Cephaloon tenuicorne''
LeConte, 1874
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Cephaloon ungulare''
LeConte, 1874
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Cephaloon vandykei''
Hopping & Hopping, 1934
References
* Hopping, Ralph, and George R. Hopping (1934). "A revision of the genus Cephaloon Newm.". ''The Pan-Pacific Entomologist'', vol. 10, no. 2, 64–70.
* Young, Daniel K. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., Michael C. Thomas, Paul E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 110. Stenotrachelidae Thomson 1859". ''American Beetles'', vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 520–521.
Further reading
* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Tenebrionoidea
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