Rodríguez-Mirón, Geovanni M.
Poecilomorpha
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Megalopodidae
- Collections
- SAM, NHMUK, USNM
- Recorded in
- Zimbabwe, Namibia, CôTe D'Ivoire
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Species historically included in the genus
- References
Poecilomorpha is a genus of beetles in the family Megalopodidae.
==Taxonomy== The concept of Poecilomorpha has been widely utilized to include disparate species from the Ethiopian and Oriental regions. Poecilomorpha comprised close to 50 species in 2021. Throughout the history of the genus, many species originally described in the genus have been transferred to other genera or have been the basis for the creation of new ones (such as Piomelopus, Bryantonaria and Antonaria). Poecilomorpha has been a 'dumping ground' within Megalopodidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poecilomorpha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.