Aphotaenius

Genus of beetles

Aphotaenius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Tribe:	Eupariini
Genus:	Aphotaenius Cartwright, 1952

Aphotaenius is a genus of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about five described species in Aphotaenius.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Species

These five species belong to the genus Aphotaenius:

Aphotaenius cambeforti Chalumeau, 1983
Aphotaenius carolinus (Van Dyke, 1928)
Aphotaenius convexus (Harold, 1880)
Aphotaenius howdeni Cartwright, 1963
Aphotaenius plaumanni Cartwright, 1963

References

^ "Aphotaenius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ "Aphotaenius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ "Aphotaenius genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

Mathison, Blaine A.; Hardy, Martin; Bezdek, Aleš; Schoolmeesters, Paul (2001). "A Worldwide Checklist of the Tribes and Genera of Aegialiinae, Aphodiinae, Termitotroginae, Aulonocneminae, Scarabaeinae, and Coprinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae)". Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.

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