''Mauroniscus'' is a genus of
beetles
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
in the family
Mauroniscidae
Mauroniscidae is a family of cleroid beetles, formerly included in the family Melyridae. There are presently five or six genera and roughly 30 described species in Mauroniscidae, all of which are native to the Americas. Almost nothing is known a ...
, historically included in the family
Melyridae. The ten known species of this genus are found in
South America in the countries of
Argentina,
Bolivia
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,
Chile,
Columbia
Columbia may refer to:
* Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America
Places North America Natural features
* Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region in ...
,
Ecuador, and
Peru.
Species
* ''
Mauroniscus apicalis''
(Pic, 1910)
* ''
Mauroniscus boliviensis''
Majer, 1995
* ''
Mauroniscus chiliensis''
Estrada & Solervicens, 2021[Estrada, P. and J. Solervicens. 2021. Description of a new species of ''Mauroniscus'' Bourgeois, 1911 from Chile (Coleoptera: Mauroniscidae). Zootaxa 4915(1): 127-132.]
* ''
Mauroniscus discipennis''
(Pic, 1910)
* ''
Mauroniscus germaini''
Majer, 1995
* ''
Mauroniscus maculatus''
(Pic, 1927)
* ''
Mauroniscus roberti''
Bourgeois, 1911
* ''
Mauroniscus subfasciatus''
(Pic, 1910)
* ''
Mauroniscus titschaki''
(Pic, 1954)
* ''
Mauroniscus wayrauchi''
Majer, 1995
References
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Cleroidea
Cleroidea genera