Ceratophyus

Ceratophyus
Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Coleoptera
Family:Geotrupidae
Subfamily:Geotrupinae
Genus:Ceratophyus
Fischer von Waldheim, 1823

Ceratophyus is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 13 described species in Ceratophyus.[1][2][3][4]

Ceratophyus polyceros

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Ceratophyus:

  • Ceratophyus alloini Prunier, Tauzin & Rosset, 2016 c g
  • Ceratophyus dauricus (Jekel, 1865) c g
  • Ceratophyus gopherinus Cartwright, 1966 i c g b (gopher beetle)
  • Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi (Fairmaire, 1856) c g
  • Ceratophyus kabaki Nikolajev, 2007 c g
  • Ceratophyus maghrebinicus Hillert & Kral, 2013 c g
  • Ceratophyus martinezi Lauffer, 1909 c g
  • Ceratophyus mesasiaticus Medvedev & Nikolajev, 1974 c g
  • Ceratophyus polyceros (Pallas, 1771) c g
  • Ceratophyus rossii (Jekel, 1865) c g
  • Ceratophyus schaffrathi Hillert & Kral, 2013 c g
  • Ceratophyus sinicus Zunino, 1973 c g
  • Ceratophyus sulcicornis Fairmaire, 1887 c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ceratophyus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Ceratophyus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  3. 1 2 "Ceratophyus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  4. 1 2 "Ceratophyus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.

Further reading

  • Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
  • Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
  • Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. Pensoft Publishers. 88 (88). doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
  • LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
  • Riley, Edward G.; Wolfe, Charles S. (2003). "An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas" (PDF). Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement.
  • White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.


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