Danae (genus)

Danae is a genus of handsome fungus beetles in the family Endomychidae. There are more than 90 species in Danae, 1 found in North America, about 10 in Asia, and the remainder in Africa.[1][2][3]

Danae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Endomychidae
Subfamily:	Endomychinae
Genus:	Danae Reiche, 1847

Species

These 97 species belong to the genus Danae:[1]

• Danae abdominalis Weise, 1903 - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• Danae aetha Strohecker, 1962 - Congo, DR Congo, Ghana
• Danae algoensis (Gorham, 1905 - South Africa
• Danae androgyna Strohecker, 1974 - DR Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia
• Danae antennata Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo
• Danae armata Arrow, 1920 - Congo, DR Congo, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria
• Danae arrowi Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae ascipes Strohecker, 1957 - Congo
• Danae atrimembris Pic, 1946 - Kenya
• Danae atronotata Pic, 1922 - Cambodia
• Danae attenuatus Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo
• Danae augusticlava Strohecker, 1953 - Congo
• Danae babaulti Pic, 1922 - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• Danae borneensis Strohecker, 1979 - Borneo
• Danae brevicollis Strohecker, 1959 - DR Congo, Tanzania
• Danae bulbifera Weise, 1903 - Rwanda, Tanzania
• Danae calcarata Arrow, 1936 - South Africa
• Danae capnicera Strohecker, 1953 - Congo, DR Congo
• Danae caprella Strohecker, 1949 - DR Congo
• Danae castanea Sasaji, 1978 - Japan
• Danae cavicollis Arrow, 1920 - DR Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Danae chappuisi Pic, 1946 - Kenya
• Danae chinensis Strohecker, 1951
• Danae ciliatipes Arrow, 1920 - Myanmar
• Danae clauda Arrow, 1925 - India
• Danae compressa Strohecker, 1960 - DR Congo, Ghana, Uganda
• Danae compsa Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo
• Danae cordicornis Strohecker, 1959 - DR Congo, Tanzania
• Danae curvicrus Strohecker, 1953 - Congo, DR Congo
• Danae curvipes Arrow, 1920 - Congo, DR Congo, Malawi
• Danae cylindrica Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae damnifica Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae denticornis (Gorham, 1873) - Japan
• Danae dentipes Arrow, 1920 - Zimbabwe
• Danae difficilis Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae diversicornis Pic, 1945 - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• Danae elgonensis Pic, 1946 - Kenya
• Danae elliptica Strohecker, 1957 - Ethiopia
• Danae exhauriens Strohecker, 1955 - Rwanda
• Danae femoralis Arrow, 1920 - Malawi
• Danae foveata Strohecker, 1953 - Congo
• Danae foveicornis Strohecker, 1957 - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• Danae gazella Strohecker, 1973 - Congo, DR Congo
• Danae gestroi Strohecker, 1967 - Congo
• Danae globifera Strohecker, 1953 - Congo
• Danae goffarti Pic, 1945 - Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda
• Danae gracilis Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae gracillima Strohecker, 1968 - Côte d'Ivoire
• Danae heliobleta Strohecker, 1953 - Congo
• Danae hirsutipes Strohecker, 1979 - Borneo
• Danae incerta Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo, Ghana
• Danae incisa Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo
• Danae indefinita Strohecker, 1957 - Congo
• Danae jeanneli Pic, 1946 - Kenya
• Danae jucunda Arrow, 1936 - Ethiopia
• Danae latipes Strohecker, 1954 - DR Congo
• Danae leona Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo
• Danae longa Strohecker, 1957 - Kenya
• Danae longicornis Arrow, 1920 - South Africa
• Danae longipennis Strohecker, 1953 - Congo
• Danae macra Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae masculina Strohecker, 1957 - DR Congo, Uganda
• Danae microdera Arrow, 1936 - Sudan
• Danae natalensis (Gerstaecker, 1858) - South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Danae nigrosignata Strohecker, 1944 - Java
• Danae nimbensis Villiers, 1954 - DR Congo
• Danae orientalis (Gorham, 1873) - Japan
• Danae ornata Arrow, 1925 - India
• Danae ovata Arrow, 1948 - DR Congo, Ghana, Zimbabwe
• Danae parallela Strohecker, 1959 - DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania
• Danae parvicornis Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae parvidens Strohecker, 1953 - Congo, Rwanda
• Danae pulchella Gestro, 1895 - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• Danae pusilla Strohecker, 1957 - Kenya
• Danae pygmaea Strohecker, 1957 - Congo
• Danae recta Strohecker, 1973 - Congo, DR Congo
• Danae ruficornis Pic, 1945 - Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe
• Danae rufipes Pic, 1946 - Kenya
• Danae rufula Reiche, 1847 - Ethiopia
• Danae seminicornis Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae senegalensis (Gerstaecker, 1858) - Benin, DR Congo, Malawi, Senegal
• Danae sericea Arrow, 1925 - India
• Danae shibatai Nakane, 1958 - Japan
• Danae sibutensis Pic, 1921 - Central African Republic
• Danae similis Weise 1903 - South Africa
• Danae simplex Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo
• Danae subcurvipes Pic, 1946 - Kenya
• Danae taiwana Chûjô, 1938 - Taiwan
• Danae testacea (Ziegler, 1845) - Canada, United States
• Danae tibialis Arrow, 1920 - Kenya, Malawi
• Danae tournieri Villiers, 1954 - DR Congo
• Danae trigona Strohecker, 1962 - DR Congo
• Danae turneri Arrow, 1948 - South Africa
• Danae uelensis Strohecker, 1974 - DR Congo
• Danae valga Strohecker, 1952 - DR Congo
• Danae venustula Gestro, 1895 - Tanzania
• Danae weisei Strohecker, 1954 - DR Congo

References

1. Shockley, F.W.; Tomaszewska, K.W.; Mchugh, J.V. (1999). "An annotated checklist of the handsome fungus beetles of the world (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Endomychidae)". zootaxa. ISBN 978-1-86977-313-7.
2. "Argogorytes Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
3. "Argogorytes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H., Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.