Euxestus is a genus of well-polished beetles (family Euxestidae). They have formerly often been placed in the pleasing fungus beetle family (Erotylidae), or in the Cerylonidae (minute bark beetles), before the Euxestidae were recognized as a family of their own, closely related to the Cerylonidae (but also to the ladybeetle family Coccinellidae), but less closely to Erotylidae.
Selected species Species in genus Euxestus include: Euxestus analis Arrow, 1926 Euxestus aneipennis Fauvel, 1903 Euxestus erithacus (Chevrolat, 1863) (sometimes in E.parkii) Euxestus hypomelas Arrow, 1926 Euxestus minor Blackburn & Sharp, 1885 Euxestus parkii Wollaston, 1858 (= E.oblongus) Euxestus phalacroides Wollaston, 1877 (= E.angustus) Euxestus spec Wollaston, 1858 Euxestus translucidus Arrow
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