Melalgus

Melalgus is a genus of horned powder-post beetles in the family Bostrichidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melalgus.^[1][2][3][4]

Melalgus femoralis

Melalgus
Melalgus batillus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Family:	Bostrichidae
Subfamily:	Polycaoninae
Genus:	Melalgus Dejean, 1833

Species

These 25 species belong to the genus Melalgus:

• Melalgus amoenus (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus batillus (Lesne, 1902)
• Melalgus borneensis (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus caribeanus (Lesne, 1906)
• Melalgus confertus (LeConte, 1866) (branch and twig borer)
• Melalgus crassulus (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus digueti (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus exesus (LeConte, 1858)
• Melalgus feanus (Lesne, 1899)
• Melalgus femoralis (Fabricius, 1792)
• Melalgus gonagrus (Fabricius, 1798)
• Melalgus gracilipes (Blanchard, 1843)
• Melalgus jamaicensis (Lesne, 1906)
• Melalgus japonicum Chûjô, 1973
• Melalgus longitarsus (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus megalops (Fall, 1901)
• Melalgus parvidens (Lesne, 1895)
• Melalgus parvulus (Lesne, 1925)
• Melalgus plicatus (LeConte, 1874)
• Melalgus rufipes (Blanchard, 1843)
• Melalgus strigipennis (Lesne, 1937)
• Melalgus subdepressus (Lesne, 1897)
• Melalgus talpula (Lesne, 1911)
• Melalgus truncatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
• Melalgus valleculatus (Lesne, 1913)