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Genus of beetles

Thanasimodes

Thanasimodes robustus in Tsavo West National Park, Kenya

T. dorsalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Cleridae
Subfamily:	Clerinae
Genus:	Thanasimodes Murray, 1867
Type species
Thanasimodes metallicus Murray, 1867

Thanasimodes is a genus of beetles in the subfamily Clerinae.

It was circumscribed by Andrew Murray in 1867.

Species

Extant species include:

Thanasimodes cyaneopurpureus (Fairmaire, 1885). Type locality: Mogadishu. Initially placed in Opilo.
Thanasimodes desertorum (Lesne, 1905). Type locality: Iferouane. Initially placed in Opilio.
Thanasimodes dorsalis (H. Lucas, 1843) Type locality: the north of Africa. Initially placed in Opilo.
- Syn. T. luteofasciatus Pic 1932
Thanasimodes gigas (Laporte de Castelnau, 1836). Type locality: Senegal. Initially placed in Notoxus.
- Syn. T. abdominalis (Fairmaire, 1891); T. tropicus (Klug, 1842)
Thanasimodes insignis (Escalera [es], 1914). Type locality: Kuraymat, Egypt. Initially placed in Opilo.
Thanasimodes metallicus Murray, 1867. Type locality: Akwa Akpa.
Thanasimodes robustus (Boheman, 1851) Type locality: Limpopo River. Initially placed in Opilo.

Fossil species include:

†Thanasimodes jantar Kolibáč, 1997. Type locality: Baltic amber, Russia, dating from the Priabonian.

Species formerly placed in this genus include:

Menieroclerus nigropiceus (Kuwert, 1893) Martlett and Gerstmeier 2016

Notes

"Makdischu".
^ Written Opilus instead of Opilo in the initial description.
"Du nord de l'Afrique".
"Sénégal".
"El Kureimat".
"Old Calabar".
"In tractibus fluvii Limpoponis".

References

^ Murray, Andrew (1867). "List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 3. 20 (119): 319–321. doi:10.1080/00222936708646336.
Schenkling, S. (1910). "Thanasimodes Murr.". Cleridae. Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 23. Berlin: W. Junk. pp. 38–39.
Löbl, I.; Rolčik, J.; Kolibáč, J.; Gerstmeier, J. (2007). "Family Cleridae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). lateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea. Stenstrup: Apollo Books. p. 375. doi:10.1163/9789004260894. ISBN 9789004260894.
^ Bartlett, Justin S.; Gerstmeier, Roland (2016). "Menieroclerus gen. nov.: A new genus for Thanasimodes nigropiceus (Kuwert, 1893) (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Clerinae)". Zootaxa. 4168 (2): 395–400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.12. PMID 27701345.
Fairmaire, Léon (1885). "Diagnoses de Coléoptères de l'Afrique orientale". Comptes-rendus des séances de la Société entomologique de Belgique. Sér. 3 (54): 8.
Lesne, P. (1905). "Un Cléride saharien nouveau (Opilo desertorum nov. sp.)". Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle. 11 (6): 388–390.
"Aïr: Iferouane". sfn error: no target: CITEREF"Aïr:_Iferouane". (help)
Lucas, H. (1843). "Coléoptères d'Algérie nés à Paris". Revue zoologique. 6: 159.
de Laporte, F. L. (1836). "Études entomologiques, ou Descriptions d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie". Revue entomologique. 4: 42.
de la Escalera, Manuel Martínez (1914). "Los Coleópteros de Marruercos". Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie Zoológica. 11. Madrid: 249–250.
Boheman, Carolus H. (1851). "Opilus (Latr.) robustus". Coleoptera: (Buprestides, Elaterides, Cebrionites, , Clerii, , Hydrophilidae.). Insecta Caffraria annis 1838–1845 a J.A. Wahlberg collecta. Vol. 1. Holmia. pp. 485–487.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Kolibáč, Jiří; Huang, Diying (2016). "The oldest known clerid fossils from the Middle Jurassic of China, with a review of Cleridae systematics (Coleoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4). S3. A list of fossils described within the family Cleridae. doi:10.1111/syen.12192. S2CID 89399958.
"†Thanasimodes jantar Kolibac 1997 (checkered beetle)". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

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