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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Ripiphoridae
Subfamilia: Pelecotominae
Genus: Clinops
Species: C. badius – C. inexpectatus – C. perpessus – C. spectabilis
Name

Clinops Gerstaecker, 1855: 16 [gender: masculine]; Gerstaecker, 1855b: 9 (as new); Viana, 1971: 69, 70, 76 (in Micholaeminae); Batelka, 2005: 28–29 (transfer to Pelecotominae)

Type species: Clinops badius Gerstaecker, 1855, by monotypy

Synonyms

Scotoscopus Brenske & Reitter, 1884: 92; [Batelka, 2005: 28 (syn. nov.)]
Type species: Scotoscopus carbonarius Reitter, 1884 [=Clinops spectabilis Schaufuss, 1873], by monotypy

References

Gerstaecker, C.E.A. 1855. Hr. Peters übergab die Fortsetzung von Diagnosen der von ihm in Mossambique gesammelten und von Hrn. Dr. Gerstäcker bearbeiteten Käfer aus den Familien der Longicornia, Paussidae und Ptiniores. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 265–268. BHL Reference page.
Batelka, J. 2005: New synonym of the genus Clinops (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae) with bionomical and distributional notes on C. spectabilis. Folia Heyrovskyana (A), 13: 27–34.
Engel, M.S., Falin, Z.H. & Batelka, J. 2019. A new genus of Pelecotominae from Mexico, with notes on the genera Clinops and Scotoscopus and the description of new species (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae). Zookeys, 857: 59–84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.857.34938 Reference page.
Viana, M.J. 1971: Micholaeminae nueva subfamilia de Ripiphoridae y Micholaemus gerstaeckeri nuevo genero y especie de la Republica Argentina (Insecta, Coleoptera). Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, 33: 69–76.

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