Atractocerus is a genus of ship-timber beetles in the family Lymexylidae.
The most recent revision of the family treats several small or monotypic genera as synonyms of Atractocerus,Wheeler, Q. D. (1986). Revision of the genera of Lymexylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 183:113-210 though some authors continue to use the older generic names (e.g.Paulus, H.F. (2004) Urtea graeca nov. gen. et nov. spec., der erste Vertreter der tropischen Atractocerinae in Europa, sowie eine Beschreibung von Hymaloxylon aspoecki nov. spec. aus Yunnan (China) (Coleoptera, Cucujiformia, Lymexylidae, Atractocerinae nov. status). Denisia, 13 (17.09.2004): 277-290).
Species These 26 species belong to the genus Atractocerus: Atractocerus aspoecki (Paulus, 2004) Atractocerus ater Kraatz, 1895 Atractocerus atricollis Pic, 1955 Atractocerus bicolor Strohmeyer, 1910 Atractocerus bifasciatus Gestro, 1874 Atractocerus blairi Gardner, 1936 Atractocerus brasiliensis Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1825 Atractocerus brevicornis (Linnaeus, 1766) Atractocerus bruijni Gestro, 1874 Atractocerus crassicornis Clark, 1931 Atractocerus emarginatus Laporte de Castelnau, 1836 Atractocerus gracilicornis Schenkling, 1914 Atractocerus kreuslerae Pascoe, 1864 Atractocerus mirabilis Miwa, 1935 Atractocerus monticola Kurosawa, 1985 Atractocerus morio Pascoe, 1860 Atractocerus niger Strohmeyer, 1910 Atractocerus nipponicus (Nakane, 1985) Atractocerus procerus Schenkling, 1914 Atractocerus quercus Gardner, 1935 Atractocerus reversus Walker, 1858 Atractocerus siebersi Karny, 1922 Atractocerus tasmaniensis Lea, 1917 Atractocerus termiticola Wasmann, 1902 Atractocerus tonkineus Pic, 1948 Atractocerus victoriensis Blackburn, 1891
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