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Chalcopteroides

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Tenebrionidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Coleoptera

Rank
  
Genus

Similar
  
Tenebrioninae, Gonocephalum, Lagriinae, Alleculinae, Bronze‑winged parrot

Chalcopteroides is a genus of darkling beetle, defined by Embrik Strand in 1935, and replacing the older name Chalcopterus which was preoccupied. The type species is Chalcopterus iridicolor.

References

Chalcopteroides Wikipedia