Published January 28, 2010 | Version v1
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Strategus Kirby 1828

  • 1. Researcher Corporación Sentido Natural ,, Colombia
  • 2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá ,, Colombia

Description

Strategus Kirby, 1828

Strategus Kirby 1828: 349.

Distribution: United States, West Indies, to central Argentina. Colombia: Amazonas, Antioquia, Boyacá, Caquetá, Chocó, Cundinamarca, Huila, Magdalena, Meta, Santander, Tolima, Valle, Vichada.

Diversity: 37 species (1 fossil). Colombia: 4 species: S. aloeus (Linnaeus), S. fascinus Burmeister, S. hipposiderus Ratcliffe, S. jugurtha Burmeister (Ratcliffe 1976; Endrődi 1985; Restrepo et al. 2003; Morón and Nogueira 2008)

Tribe Pentodontini

Notes

Published as part of Gasca-Álvarez, Héctor & Amat-García, Germán, 2010, Synopsis and key to the genera of Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Scarabaeidae) of Colombia, pp. 153-192 in ZooKeys 34 (34) on page 184, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.34.309, http://zenodo.org/record/576611

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kirby
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dynastidae
Genus
Strategus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Strategus Kirby, 1828 sec. Gasca-Álvarez & Amat-García, 2010

References

  • Ratcliffe BC (1976) A revision of the genus Strategus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 10: 93 - 204.
  • Endrodi S (1985) The Dynastinae of the World. Dr W. Junk, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 800 pp.
  • Moron MA, Nogueira G (2008) A new species of Strategus Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from eastern Mexico. Proceeding of Entomological Society of Washington 110: 95 - 102.