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Also known as Aaaba, Alcinous

Aaaaba is a genus of beetles from the Buprestidae family. It inhabits locations along the east coast of Australia. It was described in 1864 by Achille Deyrolle as "Alcinous", a junior homonym of a genus of pycnogonids. In 2002, Charles Bellamy gave it the replacement name "Aaaba", but this proved to be another junior homonym, of a genus of sponges. In 2013, it was given a further replacement name, becoming Aaaaba.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyBuprestidae
Observations recorded81

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
50
Family
Buprestidae
Collections
NMV, AM
Recorded in
Australia

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Aaaaba is a genus of beetles from the Buprestidae family. It inhabits locations along the east coast of Australia. It was described in 1864 by Achille Deyrolle as "Alcinous", a junior homonym of a genus of pycnogonids. In 2002, Charles Bellamy gave it the replacement name "Aaaba", but this proved to be another junior homonym, of a genus of sponges. In 2013, it was given a further replacement name, becoming Aaaaba.

There are two species within this genus: Aaaaba nodosa (Deyrolle, 1865) Aaaaba fossicollis (Kerremans, 1903)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aaaaba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.