Liatongus
Genus of beetles
| Liatongus | |
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| Liatongus militaris | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Tribe: | Oniticellini |
| Genus: | Liatongus Reitter, 1893 |
Liatongus is a genus of dung beetles in the subfamily Scarabaeinae of the scarab beetle family.[1][2] At least part of the upper surfaces are without hairs; the head and pronotal disc are generally sculptured; and the genae are rounded, with little or no indentation between the clypeus and the genae. Length ranges from 7.4 to 10.9 mm. Colours vary: they may be uniform brown or dull purple, or have red, white or yellow patterns on the elytra.[1]
Distribution
Found in three regions: Afrotropical, Oriental to eastern Palearctic, and western Nearctic.[1]
Taxonomy
There are 38-46 species; 17 are from Africa.[1][3]
Gallery
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Liatongus militaris -
Liatongus femoratus -
Liatongus gagatinus -
Liatongus incurvicornis -
Liatongus mergacerus -
Liatongus rhadamistus -
Liatongus venator -
Liatongus vertagus
Species
These 43 species belong to the genus Liatongus:
- Liatongus affinis (Arrow, 1908) c g
- Liatongus amitinus (Boucomont, 1921) c g
- Liatongus ancorifer Kral & Rejsek, 1999 c g
- Liatongus appositicornis Kral & Rejsek, 1999 c g
- Liatongus arrowi (Boucomont, 1921) c g
- Liatongus aterrimus (Boucomont, 1921) c g
- Liatongus bucerus (Fairmaire, 1891) c g
- Liatongus californicus (Horn, 1882) i c g b
- Liatongus clypeocornis Scheuern, 1988 c g
- Liatongus davidi (Boucomont, 1919) c g
- Liatongus denticornis (Fairmaire, 1887) c g
- Liatongus endroedii Balthasar, 1956 c g
- Liatongus femoratus (Illiger, 1800) c g
- Liatongus ferreirae Balthasar, 1964 c g
- Liatongus fulvostriatus D'Orbigny, 1916 c g
- Liatongus gagatinus (Hope, 1831) c g
- Liatongus hastatus Kral & Rejsek, 1999 c g
- Liatongus imitator Balthasar, 1938 c g
- Liatongus incurvicornis (Fairmaire, 1887) c g
- Liatongus indicus (Arrow, 1908) c
- Liatongus interruptus (Quedenfeldt, 1884) c g
- Liatongus martialis (Harold, 1879) c g
- Liatongus medius (Fairmaire, 1889) c g
- Liatongus mergacerus (Hope, 1831) c g
- Liatongus militaris (Castelnau, 1840) c g
- Liatongus minutus (Motschulsky, 1860) c
- Liatongus phanaeoides (Westwood, 1839) c g
- Liatongus pugionatus (Boheman, 1858) c g
- Liatongus raffrayi (Lansberge, 1886) c g
- Liatongus rhinoceros Arrow, 1931 c g
- Liatongus rhinocerulus (Bates, 1889) c g
- Liatongus schoutedeni (Boucomont, 1920) c
- Liatongus sjostedti (Felsche, 1904) c g
- Liatongus spathulatus (Roth, 1851) c g
- Liatongus taurus (Boucomont, 1920) c g
- Liatongus testudo (Lansberge, 1886) c g
- Liatongus triacanthus (Boucomont, 1920) c g
- Liatongus tridentatus (Boucomont, 1919) c g
- Liatongus tuberculicollis (Felsche, 1909) c g
- Liatongus upembanus Janssens, 1953 c g
- Liatongus urus (Kolbe, 1914) c g
- Liatongus venator (Fabricius, 1801) c g
- Liatongus vertagus (Fabricius, 1798) c g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[4] c = Catalogue of Life,[5] g = GBIF,[6] b = Bugguide.net[7]
References
- ^ a b c d Davis, Adrian L.V.; Frolov, Andrey V.; Scholtz, Clarke H. (2008). The African dung beetle genera (1st ed.). Pretoria: Protea Book House. p. 237. ISBN 9781869192440.
- ^ Philips, T. Keith (11 April 2016). "Phylogeny of the Oniticellini and Onthophagini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from morphological evidence". ZooKeys (579): 9–57. doi:10.3897/zookeys.579.6183. PMC 4829968. PMID 27110200.
- ^ "Liatongus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
- ^ "Liatongus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ "Browse Liatongus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ "Liatongus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
- ^ "Liatongus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
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