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Habrodactylus
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.
39 branches of this group, most-observed first
Iphiclus conspicillatus
speciesIphiclus conspicillatus
Iphiclus detritus
speciesIphiclus detritus
Iphiclus sulphurifer
speciesIphiclus sulphurifer
Iphiclus hoffmanni
speciesIphiclus hoffmanni
Iphiclus decempunctatus
speciesIphiclus decempunctatus
Iphiclus tetrastictus
speciesIphiclus tetrastictus
Iphiclus annulatus
speciesIphiclus annulatus
Iphiclus oblongonotatus
speciesIphiclus oblongonotatus
Iphiclus grammicoides
speciesIphiclus grammicoides
Iphiclus agathinus
speciesIphiclus agathinus
Iphiclus mendax
speciesIphiclus mendax
Iphiclus bistripunctatus
speciesIphiclus bistripunctatus
Iphiclus discus
speciesIphiclus discus
Iphiclus bisquadripunctatus
speciesIphiclus bisquadripunctatus
Iphiclus egensis
speciesIphiclus egensis
Iphiclus quadrimaculatus
speciesIphiclus quadrimaculatus
Iphiclus meleagris
speciesIphiclus meleagris
Iphiclus cordiger
speciesIphiclus cordiger
Iphiclus obliqueguttatus
speciesIphiclus obliqueguttatus
Iphiclus fuscomaculatus
speciesIphiclus fuscomaculatus
Iphiclus kourouensis
speciesIphiclus kourouensis
Iphiclus punctiger
speciesIphiclus punctiger
Iphiclus centromaculatus
speciesIphiclus centromaculatus
Iphiclus bisquinquepunctatus
speciesIphiclus bisquinquepunctatus
Iphiclus jejunus
speciesIphiclus jejunus
Iphiclus multiguttatus
speciesIphiclus multiguttatus
Iphiclus oblitus
speciesIphiclus oblitus
Iphiclus festivus
speciesIphiclus festivus
Iphiclus perspicillatus
speciesIphiclus perspicillatus
Iphiclus basinotatus
speciesIphiclus basinotatus
Iphiclus congener
speciesIphiclus congener
Iphiclus deficiens
speciesIphiclus deficiens
Iphiclus melanostictus
speciesIphiclus melanostictus
Iphiclus palmatus
speciesIphiclus palmatus
Iphiclus hybridus
speciesIphiclus hybridus
Iphiclus rufescens
speciesIphiclus rufescens
Iphiclus spadiceus
speciesIphiclus spadiceus
Iphiclus icterius
speciesIphiclus icterius
Iphiclus concolor
speciesIphiclus concolor
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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