Cyrioides elateroides is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae native to southwest Western Australia. It was described by the English entomologist Edward Saunders in 1872, the type specimen collected along the Swan River.[1][2] Saunders noted it to be similar in coloration to the related C. vittigera but had its markings were patterned differently.[3]
| Cyrioides elateroides | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Buprestidae |
| Genus: | Cyrioides |
| Species: | C. elateroides
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| Binomial name | |
| Cyrioides elateroides (Saunders) 1872
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References
edit- ^ Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (9 October 2008). "Species Cyrioides elateroides (Saunders, 1872)". Australian Biological Resources Study, Australian Faunal Directory. Canberra ACT: Australian Government. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ Bellamy, C. L. (2002-01-01). Coleoptera: Buprestoidea. Csiro Publishing. ISBN 9780643069008.
- ^ Saunders, Edward (1872). "Description of twenty new species of Buprestidae". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 20 (3): 239–254. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1872.tb01889.x.
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