# Collops (beetle)

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{{short description|Genus of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Collops P1330983a.jpg
| taxon = Collops
| authority = [Erichson](/source/Wilhelm_Ferdinand_Erichson), 1840
| display_parents = 3
}}

'''''Collops''''' is a genus of [soft-winged flower beetle](/source/soft-winged_flower_beetle)s in the family [Melyridae](/source/Melyridae).<ref name=gbif/><ref name=buglink/> There are over forty described species in ''Collops''.<ref>Fall, H. C. (March 1912). "A Review of the North American Species of Collops (Col.)". ''Journal of the New York Entomological Society''. '''20'''. Pasadena, CA: New York Entomological Society: 249 - 274 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.</ref>
thumb|''Collops quadrimaculatus''
thumb| ''Collops''

==Species==
These 66 species belong to the genus ''Collops'':
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* ''[Collops alatauensis](/source/Collops_alatauensis)'' <small>Wittmer, 1992</small>
* ''[Collops arizonensis](/source/Collops_arizonensis)'' <small>Marshall, 1951</small>
* ''[Collops aulicus](/source/Collops_aulicus)'' <small>Erichson, 1840</small>
* ''[Collops balteatus](/source/Collops_balteatus)''  <small>LeConte, 1852</small> (red cross beetle)
* ''[Collops bicolripennis](/source/Collops_bicolripennis)'' <small>Pic, 1920</small>
* ''[Collops bipunctatus](/source/Collops_bipunctatus)'' <small>Say, 1823</small> (two-spotted melyrid)
* ''[Collops blanda](/source/Collops_blanda)'' <small>Erichson, 1840</small>
* ''[Collops blandus](/source/Collops_blandus)''
* ''[Collops bridgeri](/source/Collops_bridgeri)'' <small>Tanner, 1936</small>
* ''[Collops carri](/source/Collops_carri)'' <small>Evers, 1993</small>
* ''[Collops cinctus](/source/Collops_cinctus)'' <small>Von Gebler, 1847</small>
* ''[Collops confluens](/source/Collops_confluens)'' <small>LeConte, 1852</small>
* ''[Collops cribrosus](/source/Collops_cribrosus)'' <small>LeConte, 1852</small>
* ''[Collops crusoe](/source/Collops_crusoe)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops dimorphicus](/source/Collops_dimorphicus)'' <small>Russel, 1966</small>
* ''[Collops discretus](/source/Collops_discretus)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops dux](/source/Collops_dux)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops eximius](/source/Collops_eximius)''  <small>Erichson</small> (synonym for ''C. nigriceps'')
* ''[Collops femoratus](/source/Collops_femoratus)'' <small>Schaeffer, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops flavicinctus](/source/Collops_flavicinctus)'' <small>Fall, 1910</small>
* ''[Collops flavicornis](/source/Collops_flavicornis)'' <small>Dalman, 1823</small>
* ''[Collops flavolimbatus](/source/Collops_flavolimbatus)'' <small>Champion, 1914</small>
* ''[Collops frontalis](/source/Collops_frontalis)'' <small>Gorham, 1914</small>
* ''[Collops gemina](/source/Collops_gemina)'' <small>Erichson, 1840</small>
* ''[Collops georgianus](/source/Collops_georgianus)'' <small>Fall, 1910</small>
* ''[Collops grandis](/source/Collops_grandis)''
* ''[Collops granellus](/source/Collops_granellus)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops hirtellus](/source/Collops_hirtellus)'' <small>LeConte, 1876</small> (hairy soft-winged flower beetle)
* ''[Collops histrio](/source/Collops_histrio)'' <small>Erichson, 1840</small>
* ''[Collops insulatus](/source/Collops_insulatus)'' <small>LeConte, 1866</small>
* ''[Collops knulli](/source/Collops_knulli)'' <small>Marshall, 1951</small>
* ''[Collops laticollis](/source/Collops_laticollis)'' <small>Horn, 1870</small>
* ''[Collops lebasi](/source/Collops_lebasi)'' <small>Erichson, 1840</small>
* ''[Collops limbellus](/source/Collops_limbellus)'' <small>Gemminger and Harold, 1868</small>
* ''[Collops marginellus](/source/Collops_marginellus)'' <small>LeConte, 1852</small>
* ''[Collops marginicollis](/source/Collops_marginicollis)'' <small>LeConte, 1852</small>
* ''[Collops necopinus](/source/Collops_necopinus)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops nigerrimus](/source/Collops_nigerrimus)'' <small>Wittmer, 1992</small>
* ''[Collops nigriceps](/source/Collops_nigriceps)'' <small>Say, 1823</small> (black-headed melyrid/eastern coastal collops)
* ''[Collops nigritus](/source/Collops_nigritus)'' <small>Schaeffer, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops obscuricornis](/source/Collops_obscuricornis)'' <small>Champion, 1914</small>
* ''[Collops pallipes](/source/Collops_pallipes)'' <small>Marshall, 1951</small>
* ''[Collops parvus](/source/Collops_parvus)'' <small>Schaeffer, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops peninsularis](/source/Collops_peninsularis)'' <small>Marshall, 1951</small>
* ''[Collops pulchellus](/source/Collops_pulchellus)'' <small>Horn, 1870</small>
* ''[Collops punctatus](/source/Collops_punctatus)'' <small>LeConte, 1852</small>
* ''[Collops punctulatus](/source/Collops_punctulatus)'' <small>LeConte, 1852</small>
* ''[Collops quadriguttatus](/source/Collops_quadriguttatus)'' 
* ''[Collops quadrimaculatus](/source/Collops_quadrimaculatus)'' <small>Fabricius, 1798</small> (four-spotted collops)
* ''[Collops reflexus](/source/Collops_reflexus)'' <small>LeConte, 1876</small>
* ''[Collops scutellatus](/source/Collops_scutellatus)'' <small>Schaeffer, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops similis](/source/Collops_similis)'' <small>Schaeffer, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops simplex](/source/Collops_simplex)'' <small>Marshall, 1951</small>
* ''[Collops subaenus](/source/Collops_subaenus)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops sublimbatus](/source/Collops_sublimbatus)'' <small>Schaeffer, 1912</small> (considered a synonym of ''C. tricolor'' by [Fall](/source/Henry_Clinton_Fall), 1912)
* ''[Collops subtropicus](/source/Collops_subtropicus)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops susamirensis](/source/Collops_susamirensis)'' <small>Wittmer, 1992</small>
* ''[Collops tibialis](/source/Collops_tibialis)'' <small>Schaeffer, 1912)</small>
* ''[Collops tricolor](/source/Collops_tricolor)'' <small>Say, 1823</small> (black-headed melyrid)
* ''[Collops validus](/source/Collops_validus)'' <small>Horn, 1870</small>
* ''[Collops versatilis](/source/Collops_versatilis)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops vicarius](/source/Collops_vicarius)'' <small>Fall, 1912</small>
* ''[Collops vittatus](/source/Collops_vittatus)'' <small>Say, 1823</small> (striped collops)
* † ''[Collops desuetus](/source/Collops_desuetus)'' <small>Wickham, 1914</small>
* † ''[Collops extrusus](/source/Collops_extrusus)'' <small>Wickham, 1914</small>
* † ''[Collops priscus](/source/Collops_priscus)'' <small>Wickham, 1914</small>
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==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=gbif>
{{Cite web| title=''Collops''
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/4713753
| website=GBIF
| accessdate=2019-12-24
}}</ref>

<ref name=buglink>
{{Cite web| title=''Collops'' genus Information
| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/7483
| website=BugGuide.net
| accessdate=2019-12-24
}}</ref>
}}

==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
* {{Cite book
| title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea
| date = 2007
| editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I.
| editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A.
| publisher = Apollo Books
| isbn = 978-8788757675
}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
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* {{Commons-inline}}
{{refend}}[https://insectoid.net/?coleoptera-collops Taxonomy of Genus Collops at Insectoid]{{Taxonbar|from=Q28817342}}

Category:Melyridae
Category:Cleroidea genera
Category:Taxa named by Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
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