Epirinus
Taxonavigation
edit| Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Scarabaeinae
Tribus: Canthonini
Genus: Epirinus
Species (35):
E. aeneus –
E. aquilus –
E. asper –
E. bentoi –
E. comosus –
E. convexus –
E. davisi –
E. drakomontanus –
E. flagellatus –
E. granulatus –
E. gratus –
E. hilaris –
E. hluhluwensis –
E. hopei –
E. inparrugosus –
E. jacobsae –
E. minimus –
E. montanus –
E. mucrodentatus –
E. muellerae –
E. ngomae –
E. obtusus –
E. pseudorelictus –
E. pseudorugosus –
E. punctatus –
E. pygidialus –
E. relictus –
E. rugosus –
E. schoolmeestersi –
E. scrobiculatus –
E. sebastiani –
E. silvestris –
E. striatus –
E. sulcipennis –
E. validus
Species in synonymy:
E. zumpti
Name
editEpirinus Reiche, 1841
- Type species: Scarabaeus flagellatus Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation by Janssens (1938).
Synonyms
editReferences
editAdditional references
edit- Deschodt, C.M., Davis, A.L.V. & Daniel, G.M. 2019. The endemic Southern African genus Epirinus Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) revisited: five new species and two new synonyms. Zootaxa 4603(2): 327–340. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.6
Reference page. - Emberson, R.M. 1983: A further record of the South African dung beetle Epirinus aeneus (Scarabaeidae). Weta 6(2): 61. full article (PDF) Reference page.
- Medina, C.A. & Scholtz, C.H. 2005. Systematics of the southern African genus Epirinus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae: Canthonini): descriptions of new species and phylogeny. Insect Systematics & Evolution 36(2): 145–160. DOI: 10.1163/187631205788838500 Reference page.
- Mlambo, S.; Sole, C.L.; Scholtz, C.H. 2011: Phylogeny of the African ball-rolling dung beetle genus Epirinus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Invertebrate systematics 25(3): 197–207. DOI: 10.1071/IS10032 Reference page.
- Scholtz, C.H. & Howden, H.F. 1987. A revision of the southern African genus Epirinus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 50(1): 121–154. full article (PDF) 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. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on March 27, 2017]
