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Paraphytus Harold 1877
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, P / B X 20, Hatfield, 0028 South Africa
Description
Paraphytus Harold, 1877
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Type species: Paraphytus doriae Harold, 1877
Species of Paraphytus are small (length: 4–8 mm), dark brown to black, elongate, oval and strongly flattened (see description in Paulian 1936). Their body shape is similar to many species in the Aphodiinae, which is the sister subfamily of the Scarabaeinae. The character of dorsally excavated apices of the protibiae in Paraphytus is shared with the Oriental coprine genus, Onychothecus Boucomont, 1912 (Lopes et al. 2024) but differentiates it from all other scarabaeine genera.
Notes
Published as part of Scholtz, Clarke H., Davis, Adrian L. V. & Klerk, Hennie De, 2025, New tribes (Paraphytini, Coptorhinini) proposed for five African or Afro-Oriental dung beetle genera formerly classified in the tribe Ateuchini Perty, 1830 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), pp. 79-92 in Zootaxa 5711 (1) on page 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17882919
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Harold
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Paraphytus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paraphytus Harold, 1877 sec. Scholtz, Davis & Klerk, 2025
References
- Paulian, R. (1936) Les coleopteres coprophages du genre Paraphytus. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 41, 82-87. https://doi.org/10.3406/bsef.1936.14981
- Lopes, F., Gunter, N., Gillett, I. C. P. D. T., Montanaro, G., Rossini, M., Losacco, F., IDaniel, G. M., Straube, N. & Tarasov, S. (2024) From museum drawer to tree: Historical DNA phylogenomics clarifies the systematics of rare dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from museum collections. PLoS ONE, 19, e 0309596. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309596