''Atractocerus'' is a genus of ship-timber

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Lymexylidae The Lymexylidae (historically often spelled Lymexylonidae), also known as ship-timber beetles, are a family of wood-boring beetles. Lymexylidae belong to the suborder Polyphaga and are the sole member of the superfamily Lymexyloidea. Habitat an ...

. The most recent revision of the family treats several small or monotypic genera as synonyms of ''Atractocerus'', though some authors continue to use the older generic names (e.g.Paulus, H.F. (2004) ''Urtea graeca'' nov. gen. et nov. spec., der erste Vertreter der tropischen Atractocerinae in Europa, sowie eine Beschreibung von ''Hymaloxylon aspoecki'' nov. spec. aus Yunnan (China) (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Lymexylidae, Atractocerinae nov. status). Denisia, 13 (17.09.2004): 277-290).

Species

These 26 species belong to the genus ''Atractocerus'': * '' Atractocerus aspoecki'' (Paulus, 2004) * '' Atractocerus ater'' Kraatz, 1895 * '' Atractocerus atricollis'' Pic, 1955 * '' Atractocerus bicolor'' Strohmeyer, 1910 * '' Atractocerus bifasciatus'' Gestro, 1874 * '' Atractocerus blairi'' Gardner, 1936 * '' Atractocerus brasiliensis'' Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 * '' Atractocerus brevicornis'' (Linnaeus, 1766) * '' Atractocerus bruijni'' Gestro, 1874 * '' Atractocerus crassicornis'' Clark, 1931 * '' Atractocerus emarginatus'' Laporte de Castelnau, 1836 * '' Atractocerus gracilicornis'' Schenkling, 1914 * '' Atractocerus kreuslerae'' Pascoe, 1864 * '' Atractocerus mirabilis'' Miwa, 1935 * '' Atractocerus monticola'' Kurosawa, 1985 * '' Atractocerus morio'' Pascoe, 1860 * '' Atractocerus niger'' Strohmeyer, 1910 * '' Atractocerus nipponicus'' (Nakane, 1985) * '' Atractocerus procerus'' Schenkling, 1914 * '' Atractocerus quercus'' Gardner, 1935 * '' Atractocerus reversus'' Walker, 1858 * '' Atractocerus siebersi'' Karny, 1922 * '' Atractocerus tasmaniensis'' Lea, 1917 * '' Atractocerus termiticola'' Wasmann, 1902 * '' Atractocerus tonkineus'' Pic, 1948 * '' Atractocerus victoriensis'' Blackburn, 1891

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* * Cucujoidea genera Lymexylidae {{Cucujoidea-stub