Sceliages
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Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Scarabaeinae
Tribus: Scarabaeini
Genus: Sceliages
Species (7):
S. adamastor –
S. augias –
S. brittoni –
S. difficilis –
S. gagates –
S. granulatus –
S. hippias
Name edit
Sceliages Westwood, 1837
- Type species: Sceliages iopas Westwood, 1837 [=Ateuchus adamastor Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Serville, 1828] by monotypy.
Synonymy edit
- Parascarabaeus
- Scarabaeus (Sceliages)
References edit
Primary references edit
- Westwood 1837: [Untitled communication.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 5: 12–13. BHL [first availability, see p. 12]
Additional references edit
- Forgie, S.A., Grebennikov, V.V. & Scholtz, C.H. 2002: Revision of Sceliages Westwood, a millipede-eating genus of southern African dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Invertebrate Systematics 16(6): 931–955. DOI: 10.1071/IT01025 Reference page.
- Forgie, S.A., Philips, T.K. & Scholtz, C.H. 2005. Evolution of the Scarabaeini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Systematic Entomology 30(1): 60–96. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00273.x Reference page.
Links edit
- Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on April 7, 2017]