Languriomorpha

This article is about the pleasing fungus beetle genus established by Gorham in 1887. The longhorn beetle genus named Languriomorpha by Fisher in 1925 is now called Languriomiccolamia.

Languriomorpha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Erotylidae
Subfamily: Languriinae
Tribe: Languriini
Genus: Languriomorpha
Gorham, 1887
Type species
Languria lewisii
Crotch, 1873

Languriomorpha is a small genus of pleasing fungus beetles (family Erotylidae) in tribe Languriini of the "lizard beetle" subfamily Languriinae. Some authors subsume it in Pachylanguria.[1]

A handful of Languriomorpha species spottily occur in the temperate Pacific coastal areas of East Asia almost to the Arctic:[2]

  • Languriomorpha kunashiriana Kôno, 1936
  • Languriomorpha lewisi (Crotch, 1873)
  • Languriomorpha nara (Lewis, 1884)
  • Languriomorpha nigritarsis (Waterhouse, 1873)
  • Languriomorpha yamamotoi (Miwa & Chûjô, 1937)

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