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Iphiclus
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Iphiclus

Iphiclus is a large genus – possibly the most diverse – in the pleasing fungus beetle family (Erotylidae). This genus belongs to subfamily Erotylinae and occurs across the Neotropics. Its almost 300 named species are divided into several subgenera, whose monophyly (and validity), however, remains to be determined. Most of these beetles, as adults as well as larvae, feed on polypores (shelf fungi).

The genus name was established by Louis Chevrolat in 1837. Chevrolat's name was, however, overshadowed by the extensive study of Jean Théodore Lacordaire a few years later, who described most of the currently-known species and introduced the genus name Brachysphoenus. That genus name, or spelling variants thereof, was generally used by subsequent authors – namely in the seminal works on the genus by George Crotch in the mid-1870s, Henry Gorham in the late 1880s, Paul Kuhnt around 1910, Leopold Mader around 1940, and Jacintho Guérin in 1956 –, until Iphiclus was reinstated by Moacyr Alvarenga in the 1960s.

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28 branches of this group, most-observed first

Iphiclus abdominalis

speciesIphiclus abdominalis

Iphiclus sedecimmaculatus

speciesIphiclus sedecimmaculatus

Iphiclus sexpunctatus

speciesIphiclus sexpunctatus

Iphiclus rubidus

speciesIphiclus rubidus

Iphiclus varians

speciesIphiclus varians

Iphiclus intersectus

speciesIphiclus intersectus

Iphiclus flexuosus

speciesIphiclus flexuosus

Iphiclus flavovittatus

speciesIphiclus flavovittatus

Iphiclus vigintipunctatus

speciesIphiclus vigintipunctatus

Iphiclus decemnotatus

speciesIphiclus decemnotatus

Iphiclus scutellaris

speciesIphiclus scutellaris

Iphiclus sedecimpustulatus

speciesIphiclus sedecimpustulatus

Iphiclus tenuecinctus

speciesIphiclus tenuecinctus

Iphiclus maculatus

speciesIphiclus maculatus

Iphiclus cingulatus

speciesIphiclus cingulatus

Iphiclus atrisignatus

speciesIphiclus atrisignatus

Iphiclus guttiger

speciesIphiclus guttiger

Iphiclus claropictus

speciesIphiclus claropictus

Iphiclus ventralis

speciesIphiclus ventralis

Iphiclus ocellatus

speciesIphiclus ocellatus

Iphiclus pictus

speciesIphiclus pictus

Iphiclus octodecimguttatus

speciesIphiclus octodecimguttatus

Iphiclus chelonarius

speciesIphiclus chelonarius

Iphiclus flavovittatoides

speciesIphiclus flavovittatoides

Iphiclus basalis

speciesIphiclus basalis

Iphiclus guttatus

speciesIphiclus guttatus

Iphiclus lineellus

speciesIphiclus lineellus

Iphiclus pardalinus

speciesIphiclus pardalinus

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