Campyloxenus

Campyloxenus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae
Subfamily: Campyloxeninae
Genus: Campyloxenus
Fairmaire & Germain, 1860
Species:
C. pyrothorax
Binomial name
Campyloxenus pyrothorax

Campyloxenus is a bioluminescent genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae, and had been the sole member of the subfamily Campyloxeninae, until another monotypic genus Malalcahuello [species] was described from Chile in 2015 as its new member.[1] There is one described species in Campyloxenus, Campyloxenus pyrothorax,[2][3] from southwestern Chile and Argentina.[4]

  1. ^ Arias-Bohart, E.T. (2015). "Malalcahuello ocaresi gen. & sp. n. (Elateridae, Campyloxeninae)". ZooKeys (508): 1–13. doi:10.3897/zookeys.508.8926.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference gbif was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Kundrata2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Costa1975 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).