Cheleion

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Aphodiinae
Tribus: Stereomerini
Genus: Cheleion
Species (3): C. jendeki – C. malayanum – C. watanabei

[list of species after Vårdal & Forshage (2015)]

Name

Cheleion Vårdal & Forshage, 2010

• Type species: Cheleion malayanum Vårdal & Forshage, 2010, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Vårdal, H. & Forshage, M. 2010: A new genus and species and a revised phylogeny of Stereomerini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae), with notes on assumedly termitophilic aphodiines. In: Ratcliffe, B.; Krell, F.-T. (eds) Current advances in Scarabaeoidea research. ZooKeys 34: 55–76. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.34.264

Additional references

• Kakizoe, S., Maruyama, M. & Masumoto, K. 2019. Cheleion watanabei sp. n., a new species of Stereomerini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae), and description of the male of C. jendeki. Zookeys, 824: 45–52. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.824.31627 Reference page. 
• Král, D. & Hajek, J. 2015. A second species of Cheleion from Johor, Malaysia (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Stereomerini). Zookeys 532: 87–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.532.6116 Full article Reference page. 

Links

• 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. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page.  [accessed on April 12, 2017]