Eurypogon
Motschulsky, 1860
Species Guides
3Eurypogon is a of soft-bodied plant beetles in the Artematopodidae. The genus contains approximately 11 described distributed across the Holarctic region, with species described from North America, Japan, and China. Two Chinese species, E. jaechi and E. heishuiensis, were described in 2013 from mountainous regions of Yunnan Province. The genus is characterized by soft, flexible bodies and is placed phylogenetically within the superfamily Elateroidea in a basal position near Omethidae and Telegeusidae.
Pronunciation
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Distribution
Holarctic distribution. North America: E. niger (eastern United States), E. californicus (California). Palaearctic: Japan (E. brevipennis, E. granulatus, E. hisamatsui, E. japonicus, E. ocularis), China (E. jaechi and E. heishuiensis from Yunnan Province mountains).
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- Wikipedia
- GBIF taxonomy match
- iNaturalist taxon
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Catalogue of Life
- Taxonomic summary of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera) from Asia, with distributional update of Eurypogon jaechi
- The phylogenetic position of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea), with description of the first two Eurypogon species from China