Dynastini

I NSECTA M UNDI - New records of dynastine scarab beetles in ...

CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL New records of dynastine scarab beetles in the tribes Oryctini, Agaocephalini and Dynastini from Cayo district, Belize

Key to Adult Males and Females of the Genus Megasoma ...

M. punctulatus elytral punctation URL: http: //www-museum. unl. edu/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/ Scar abaei dae/Dynastinae/Dynastinae-Tribes/Dynastini/Me gas om a/Me gas om a-Key/Megasoma K. html

MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics

1 0176: 1-10 2011 Notes on nomenclature in Xylotrupes Hope (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Dynastini) J. Mark Rowland Department of Biology MSC03 2020 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA rowland@unm.edu Abstract.

Synopsis and key to the genera of Dynastinae (Coleoptera ...

Males in several species (mainly in the tribes Dynastini, Agaocephalini, and Oryctini) possess prominent horns on the head and/or the thorax, which, because of their great size, give rise to vernacular names such as "rhinoceros beetle", "elephant beetle", "Hercules beetle" or "unicorn beetle" (Ratcliff ...

Zootaxa, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae

A TYMPANAL HEARING ORGAN IN SCARAB BEETLES

Taxonomic distribution of tympanal organs within the dynastine Scarabaeidae SUBFAMILY Tribe Genus Tympanic membranes DYNASTINAE Cyclocephalini Cyclocephala Yes Dyscinetus Yes Pentodontini Euetheola Yes Oxygrylius Yes Bothynus No Aphonus No Dynastini Dynastes No Phileurini Phileurus No Oryctoderini?

Male horn dimorphism, phylogeny and systematics of rhinoceros ...

These structures have been previously neglected as taxonomic characters in the Dynastini, but here provide the principal basis for establishing both the terminal taxa for the phylogenetic analysis and a new, readily testable taxonomic system for Xylotrupes .

The Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera)

Very large species, over 50 mm in length; male glabrous; with long, head and pronotal horns, one above the other; female without horns, closely roughly punctate, pronotum densely covered with short brownish hair (Dynastini) Dynastes Hercules Hercules (Linnaeus) Species less than 50 mm in length; other ...

Zootaxa, Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae

The Scarabaeoidea of California Art Evans Smithsonian ...

... DYNASTINAE CYCLOCEPHALINI Cyclocephala pasadenae (Casey) DYNASTINAE CYCLOCEPHALINI Cyclocephala pilosicollis (Saylor) DYNASTINAE CYCLOCEPHALINI Cyclocephala wandae Hardy DYNASTINAE PENTODONTINI Ligyrus gibbosus obsoletus (LeConte) DYNASTINAE PENTODONTINI Ligyrus ruginasus (LeConte) DYNASTINAE DYNASTINI ...