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''Mimodacne'' is a genus of beetles in the family
Erotylidae ''Ischyrus quadripunctatus'' Erotylidae, or the pleasing fungus beetles, is a family of beetles belonging to Cucujoidea containing over 100 genera. In the present circumscription, it contains 6 tribes ( Tritomini, Dacnini, Megalodacnini, Er ...
. It was described by
Ernest Marie Louis Bedel Ernest Marie Louis Bedel (16 May 1849, Nantes – 26 January 1922, Paris) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Louis Bedel studied first in Nantes then in Paris where the future entomologist Maurice Sédillot (1849-1933) was a ...
in 1917. This genus comprises some species previously included in Megalodacne but in which the club of the antenna is very large and markedly asymmetrical.


Species

*'' Mimodacne longiuscula'' Fairm. 1891 *'' Mimodacne rhodesiaca'' Bedel, 1917 *'' Mimodacne belgarum'' Bedel, 1917 *'' Mimodacne abnormalis'' Cr. 1876 *'' Mimodacne imperatrix'' Gorh. 1883 *'' Mimodacne magnifica'' Har. 1878 *'' Mimodacne kolbei'' Kunt, 1908 L. Bede
Nouveau genre et nouvelles especes d'Erotylidae de l'Afrique equatoriale
Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 85 pages 367--368 (1917)

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References

Erotylidae Cucujoidea genera {{Erotylidae-stub