Rhizoplatys

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: Dynastinae
Tribus: Phileurini
Subtribus: Phileurina
Genus: Rhizoplatys
Species (7): R. arabicus – R. auriculatus – R. canui – R. cribarius – R. maintyi – R. mucronatus – R. simplicitarsis

Name

Rhizoplatys Westwood, 1842: 454

• Type species Rhizoplatys cribrarius Westwood, 1841, by monotypy.

Synonymy

• Trionychus Burmeister, 1847. [no type species designated; Synonymy by Péringuey (1901)].

References

Primary references

• Westwood, J.O. 1842. Descriptions of some Dynastidae in the Collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, illustrating the natural relations of the genus Cryptodus. Annals and magazine of natural history 8: 454–455. [original description: p. 454]

Additional references

• Silvestre, G. 1999. Deux nouveaux Dynastides de Côte d'Ivoire [Coleoptera]. Revue Française d'Entomologie, (Nouvelle-Serie) 21 (3) : 121-122. 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 Jun 19, 2017]