''Cheirodes'' is a genus of
darkling beetle
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.
Taxonomy
''Tenebrio'' is the Latin generic name that Carl Linnaeus assigned to some flour beetles ...
s in the
Melanimonini
Melanimonini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae
Darkling beetle is the common name for members of the beetle family Tenebrionidae, comprising over 20,000 species in a cosmopolitan distribution.
Taxonomy
''Tenebrio'' is ...
tribe. It was formerly known as ''Anemia'' until 1973, when T. J. Spilman determined ''Anemia'' to be a synonym of ''Cheirodes''
Géné, 1839.
Subgenera
''Cheirodes'' is split into several subgenera:
* ''Cheirodes''
Géné, 1839
* ''Anemiadena''
Ardoin, 1971
* ''Histiaea''
Fairmaire, 1892
* ''Pseudanemia''
Wollaston, 1864
* ''Spinanemia''
Ardoin, 1971
* ''Trichanemia''
Ardoin, 1971
''Ammidanemia''
Reitter, 1904 is partly synonymous with ''Histiaea''
Fairmaire, 1892 and ''Pseudanemia''
Wollaston, 1864.
Species
Among the species within this
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
are:
* Subgenus ''Cheirodes''
Géné, 1839
** ''C. aethiopea''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia aethiopea''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. chobauti''
(Reitter, 1898) (Synonyms: ''Anemia rotundicollis''
Reitter, 1884, ''Anemia reitteri''
Pic, 1899, ''Anemia chobauti''
(Reitter, 1898))
** ''C. durandi''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia durandi''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. granulatus''
( Laporte, 1840) (Synonyms: ''Anemia crassa''
Wollaston, 1867, ''Anemia granulata''
Laporte, 1840)
** ''
C. gruveli ''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia gruveli''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. humeralis''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia humeralis''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. opacula''
(Fairmaire, 1882)
** ''C. punctata''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia punctata''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. sardous''
Géné, 1839 (Synonym: ''Anemia sardoa''
(Géné, 1839))
*** ''C. sardoa denticulata''
(Wollaston, 1867) (Synonym: ''Anemia sardoa sudanica''
Gridelli, 1950)
** ''
C. villiersi''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia villiersi''
Ardoin, 1971)
* Subgenus ''Spinanemia''
Ardoin, 1971
** ''C. allardi''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia allardi''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. amieti''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia amieti''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. capensis''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia capensis''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. cornutus''
(Pic, 1898) (Synonym: ''Anemia cornuta''
Pic, 1898)
*** ''C. cornutus panelii''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia cornutus panelii''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. crispa''
(Quedenfeldt, 1885) (Synonym: ''Anemia crispa''
Quedenfeldt, 1885)
** ''C. curta''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia curta''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. hottentota''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia hottentota''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. kaszabi''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia kaszabi''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. mystacina''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia mystacina''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. ovatula''
(Fairmaire, 1891)
** ''
C. pilosus''
(Tournier, 1868) (Synonyms: ''Anemia pilosa''
Tournier, 1868, ''Anemia fenyesi''
Reitter, 1897, ''Cheirodes fissidens''
Reitter, 1898)
** ''C. poteli''
Lillig & Ferrer, 2001
** ''C. roeri''
(Ardoin, 1976)
** ''C. royi''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia royi''
Ardoin, 1971)
*** ''C. royi tchadensis''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia royi tchadensis''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. seriattipennis''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia seriattipennis''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. thoracicus''
(Fairmaire, 1891) (Synonym: ''Anemia thoracicus''
Fairmaire, 1891)
** ''C. uhligi''
Ferrer, 2004
* Subgenus ''Anemiadena''
Ardoin, 1971
** ''C. convexa''
(Gestro, 1881)
** ''C. giraudini''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia giraudini''
Ardoin, 1971)
* Subgenus ''Trichanemia''
Ardoin, 1971
** ''C. schmitzi''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia schmitzi''
Ardoin, 1971)
* Subgenus ''Histiaea''
Fairmaire, 1892
** ''C. angolensis''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia angolensis''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. asperulus''
(Reitter, 1884) (Synonyms: ''Anemia denticulata''
Pic, 1923, ''Anemia aegyptiaca''
Pic, 1936, ''Anemia asperula''
Reitter, 1884, ''Anemia asperula var. seriesetosa''
Baudi, 1884)
** ''C. bidentulus''
(Fairmaire, 1892) (Synonym: ''Histiaea bidentula''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''C. jaegeri''
Bremer, 2001
** ''C. kochii''
(Ardoin, 1976)
** ''C. sakalava''
(Alluaud, 1900)
** ''
C. schultzei''
(Geibien, 1910) (Synonym: ''A. submetallica''
Peringuey, 1908)
* Subgenus ''Pseudanemia''
Wollaston, 1864
** ''C. abyssinica''
(Ardoin, 1971) (Synonym: ''Anemia abyssinica''
Ardoin, 1971)
** ''
C. brevicollis''
(Wollaston, 1864) (Synonyms: ''Anemia aphodioides''
Walker, 1871, ''Anemia rotundicollis''
Desbrochers, 1881, ''Anemia fausti''
Solsky, 1881, ''Anemia hauseri''
Reitter, 1894, ''Anemia striolata''
Fairmaire, 1894, ''Anemia pharao''
Reitter, 1897, ''Anemia curticollis''
Pic, 1923, ''Pseudanemia brevicollis''
Wollaston, 1864)
** ''C. drurei''
(Pic, 1923) (Synonym: ''Anemia drurei''
Pic, 1923)
** ''
C. submetallicus''
(Raffray, 1873) (Synonyms: ''Anemia palaestina''
Pic, 1899, ''Anemia submetallica''
(Raffray, 1873), ''Anoemia submetallica''
Raffray, 1873)
* ''C. africanus''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. ahomanae''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. anatolicus''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. arabicus''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''
C. californicus''
(Horn, 1870) (Synonym: ''Anaemia californica''
Horn, 1870)
* ''
C. dentipes''
(Ballion, 1878) (Synonym: ''Microzoum dentipes''
Ballion, 1878)
* ''C. guanchorum''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. linnmani''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. massauensis''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. occulata''
(Wollaston, 1860)
* ''C. otomanus''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. ruthmuellerae''
Ferrer, 2016
* ''C. sculpturata''
(Ritsema, 1875)
References
External links
* Fauna Europaea
Genus ''Anemia''*
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Tenebrioninae
Tenebrionidae genera
Beetles of Europe