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Dynastinae

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Note: this taxon list is still under construction. It does not yet contain all known Dynastinae subgroups.

Containing group: Scarabaeidae

References

Jameson, M. L., B. C. Ratcliffe, and V. Maly. 2002. Review of the genus Acrobolbia with remarks on its classification, and a key to the world genera of Cyclocephalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Folia Heyrovskyana 10(1):1-15.

Krell, F.-T. 2002. On nomenclature and synonymy of Old World Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Entomologische Blätter 98:37-46.

Ratcliffe, B. C. 2002. Scarabaeidae Latreille 1802: Dynastinae MacLeay 1819. Chapter 34-V in American Beetles. Volume 2. R. H. Arnett, M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 861 pp.

Ratcliffe, B. C. 2003. The dynastine scarab beetles of Costa Rica and Panama (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 16:1-506.

Ratcliffe, B. C. and M. Hardy. 2005. Collagenus dasysternus, a new genus and species of Dynastinae from eastern Venezuela with a key to the New World genera of Pentodontini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 59(1):143150.

Ratcliffe, B. C., D. M. Smith, and D. Erwin. 2005. Oryctoantiquus borealis, new genus and species from the Eocene of Oregon, U.S.A., the oldest fossil dynastine and largest fossil scarabaeid (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Coleopterists Bulletin 59(1):127-135.

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Scientific Name Cyclocephala lurida
Location Durham County, North Carolina, USA
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Collection BugGuide.Net
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Copyright © 2003 Patrick Coin
Scientific Name Oryctes nasicornis
Source #1231037
Source Collection Bugwood Network/Forestry Images
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License - Version 3.0.
Copyright © Gyorgy Csoka, Hungary Forest Research Institute, Hungary
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