Anostirus

Anostirus
Anostirus castaneus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Elateriformia
Family:	Elateridae
Subfamily:	Dendrometrinae
Tribe:	Prosternini
Genus:	Anostirus C. G. Thomson, 1859

Anostirus is a genus of beetles in the family Elateridae.^[1]

First record of Anostirus gracilicollis was made in Hungary by Stierlin in 1896.^[2]

The genus was described in 1859 by Carl Gustaf Thomson.^[1]

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.^[3]

Species:^[1]

• Anostirus alexandri Wurst, 1995
• Anostirus ataturki Platia & Gudenzi, 2000
• Anostirus atropilosus Buysson, 1898
• Anostirus binaghii Platia & Gudenzi, 2006
• Anostirus boeberi (Germar, 1824)
• Anostirus castaneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Anostirus cerrutii Binaghi, 1940
• Anostirus daimio (Lewis, 1894)
• Anostirus dalmatinus Müller, 1925
• Anostirus edecorus (Schwarz, 1906)
• Anostirus eschscholtzii (Faldermann, 1835)
• Anostirus gabilloti (Pic, 1907)
• Anostirus ghilarovi Gurjeva, 1988
• Anostirus gracilicollis (Stierlin, 1896)
• Anostirus gudenzii Platia, 1983
• Anostirus haemapterus (Illiger, 1807)
• Anostirus hirculus Gurjeva, 1988
• Anostirus holtzi (Schwarz, 1902)
• Anostirus incostatus (Pic, 1905)
• Anostirus jarmilae Cechovsky & Platia, 1991
• Anostirus lauianus Wurst, 1995
• Anostirus lederi (Heyden, 1878)
• Anostirus marginatus (Pic, 1931)
• Anostirus melas (Koenig, 1887)
• Anostirus nubilosus Wurst & Schimmel, 1995
• Anostirus parumcostatus (Buysson, 1894)
• Anostirus plagifer (Reitter, 1914)
• Anostirus pseudosulphuripennis Binaghi, 1940
• Anostirus pulchellus (Denisova, 1948)
• Anostirus pullatus Gurjeva, 1989
• Anostirus purpureus (Poda, 1761)
• Anostirus reissi (Reitter, 1914)
• Anostirus richterae Gurjeva, 1988
• Anostirus saltinii Cate, Platia & Schimmel, 2002
• Anostirus semiaurantiacus (Fairmaire, 1891)
• Anostirus stramineipennis Binaghi, 1940
• Anostirus sulphuripennis (Germar, 1843)
• Anostirus suvorovi (Reitter, 1910)
• Anostirus teheranus Binaghi, 1940
• Anostirus trivialis Gurjeva, 1988
• Anostirus turcicus Platia & Mertlik, 1996
• Anostirus turkestanicus (Stepanov, 1935)
• Anostirus venustus Gurjeva, 1988
• Anostirus zenii (Rosenhauer, 1856)