Tropicis Scott, 1926

Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano, 2008, An essay on the tribe Xylographellini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae), Zootaxa 1832 (1), pp. 1-110 : 42

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1832.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:45A82AD6-F369-4A74-A280-048BAE6E2DA5

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038E87B5-FF9A-CE59-FF6A-4AF8FAF5FDD6

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tropicis Scott, 1926
status

 

Tropicis Scott, 1926 (8, 12, 146–158)

Included species

Tropicis brevicarinatus Scott, 1926

Tropicis cuccodoroi Lopes-Andrade sp. nov.

Tropicis flexicarinatus Scott, 1926

Tropicis sexcarinatus ( Waterhouse, 1876) (type species)

Diagnosis and comments

Very similar to Syncosmetus , but all the known species are macropterous. Consequently, the body of Tropicis is subparallel-sided (rather than suboval to oval) with the humeri angulate (rather than rounded).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Ciidae

Loc

Tropicis Scott, 1926

Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano 2008
2008
Loc

Tropicis cuccodoroi

Lopes-Andrade 2008
2008
Loc

Tropicis brevicarinatus

Scott 1926
1926
Loc

Tropicis flexicarinatus

Scott 1926
1926
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