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Scarabaeus Linnaeus 1758

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, Hong Kong SAR Government, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China These authors contributed equally to this work Corresponding author, E-mail: baim @ ioz. ac. cn

Description

Genus Scarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758

Scarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. Ed., 10: 345 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758).

Actinophorus Creutzer, 1799, Ent. Versuche: 79 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758); Gillet, 1911a, Coleopt. Cat., Scaraboidea: Coprinae I, pars 38, 19: 6 (Syn.).

Ateuchus Weber, 1801, Observ. Ent.: 10; Lacordaire, 1856, Gen. Col., 3: 66 (Syn.).

Ateuchus Fabricius, 1801, Syst. Eleuth., 1: 54 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758).

Heliocantharus MacLeay, 1821, Horae Ent., 1(2): 497 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758); Gillet, 1911a, Coleopt. Cat., Scaraboidea: Coprinae I, pars 38, 19: 6 (Syn.).

Sebasteos Westwood, 1847, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 4: 225 (Type species: Sebasteos galenus Westwood, 1847); Péringuey, 1901, Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc., 12: 26, 57 (Syn.).

Ateuchetus Bedel, 1892, Abeille, 27: 282; Reitter, 1892, Verh. Naturforsch. Ver. Brünn, 24: 162 (Syn.).

Parateuchus Shipp, 1895, Entom., 28: 221 (Type species: Scarabaeus morbillosus Fabricius, 1792); Gillet, 1911a, Coleopt. Cat., Scaraboidea: Coprinae I, pars 38, 19: 6 (Syn.).

Neateuchus Gillet, 1911b, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 55: 309 (Type species: Ateuchus proboscideus Guérin-Méneville, 1844).

Neomnematium Janssens, 1938, Scarabaeini Col. Exp. Parc Nat. Miss. Fasc. 21 Bruxelles: 71 (Type species: Scarabaeus sevoistra Alluaud, 1902).

Drepanopodus Janssens, 1940, Mém. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 16(2): 73 (Type species: Ateuchus costatus Wiedemann, 1823).

Madateuchus Paulian, 1953, Mém. Ins. Sci. Mad., 3(E): 24 (Type species: Madateuchus viettei Paulian, 1953).

Notes

Published as part of Cheung, Kahong, Bai, Ming, Leung, Manhin, Lee, Yingming, Chan, Kinfung & Yang, Xingke, 2018, Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Hong Kong, pp. 233-267 in Zoological Systematics 43 (3) on page 256, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201830, http://zenodo.org/record/4617705

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Scarabaeus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Scarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Cheung, Bai, Leung, Lee, Chan & Yang, 2018

References

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  • Creutzer, C. 1799. Entomologisches Versuche. (Kleine Beitrage zur nahern Berichtigungen einiger Kaferaten mit 3 ausgemahften Kufertafeln von Sturm J.). K. Schaumburg und Comp., Wien, Austria. 142 pp.
  • Gillet, J. J. E. 1911 a. Scarabaeidae: Coprinae I. Coleopterorum Catalogus auspicis et auxilio. W. Junk. A. Schenkling. Berlin, 38: 1 - 100.
  • Weber, F. 1801. Observationes Entomologicae, Continentes Novorum Quae Condidit Generum Characteres, et Nuper Detectarum Specierum Descriptiones. Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiel, Germany. 116 pp.
  • Lacordaire, T. 1856. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des Coleopteres ou expose methodique et critique de tous les genres proposes jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Tome troiseme contenant les familles des pectinicorne et lamellicornes, vol. 3. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, France. 594 pp.
  • Fabricius, J. C. 1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Bibliopoli academici novi, Kiliae. 506 pp.
  • Westwood, J. O. 1847. Characters of various new groups and species amongst the coprophagous lamellicorn beetles. Transactions of the Royal of Entomological Society of London, 4: 225 - 232.
  • Peringuey, L. 1901. Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Fam. Lucanidae. Fam. Scarabaeidae. Sub-families: Coprinae, Aphodiinae, Troginae, Chironinae, Geotrupinae, Hybosorinae, Orphninae, Dynastinae. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 12: 1 - 560.
  • Bedel, L. 1892. Revision des Scarabaeus palearctiques. L'Abeille, Journal d'Entomologie, 27: 281 - 288.
  • Reitter, E. 1892. Bestimmungs-Tabellen der Lucaniden und coprophagen Lamellicornen des palaearctischen Faunengebietes. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brunn, 24: 1 - 230.
  • Shipp, J. W. 1895. Notes on Onthophagus Latr., with corrections of nomenclature, and a description of a new genus. The Entomologist, 28 (385): 178 - 179.
  • Fabricius, J. C. 1792. Entomologia systematicae emendatae et auctae. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species adiectis, synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. I. Christ. Gottl. Proft. Hafniae, Copenhagen, Denmark. 538 pp.
  • Gillet, J. J. E. 1911 b. Coprophaga africana. Description d'especes nouvelles et remarques diverses. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 55: 308 - 312.
  • Janssens, A. 1938. Scarabaeini Coleoptera Lamellicornia fam. Scarabaeidae. Exploration du Parc National albert Mission G. F. de Whitte (1933 - 1935). Fasc. 21. Bruxelles,: 76.
  • Alluaud, C. 1902. Description d'un Coleoptere nouveau du genre Scarabaeus (Ateuchus) du Sud de Madagascar. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris, 8 (4): 250 - 251.
  • Janssens, A. 1940. Monographie des Scarabaeus et genres voisins. Memoires de l'Musee Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 16: 1 - 81.
  • Wiedemann, C. R. W. 1823. Zweihundert neue Kafer von Java. Bengalen und den Vorgebirgen der Gutten Hoffnung. Zoologisches Magazin, 2: 1 - 133.
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