Subfamily Ceratocanthinae - Pill Scarab Beetles

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

Round Fungus Beetle - Ceratocanthus aeneus

Pill Scarab Beetle - Germarostes globosus

Round, dark beetle - Germarostes globosus

Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Germarostes aphodioides

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Hybosoridae (Scavenger Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Ceratocanthinae (Pill Scarab Beetles)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Acanthocerinae Lacordaire 1856 (based on a junior homonym: Acanthocerus MacLeay 1819 nec Palisot de Beauvois 1818)(1)

Explanation of Names

Ceratocanthinae Martinez 1968

Numbers

3 spp. in 2 genera (both in the Ceratocanthini) in our area, ~350 spp. in 40 genera of 3 tribes worldwide; Ceratocanthini is a worldwide tribe (the two small tribes are both neotropical)(1)

Range

pantropical (~50% of spp. in the Neotropics; none in Australia), with just 3 spp. ranging into NA(1)

Works Cited

1.	Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles (by Brett Ratcliffe and Mary Liz Jameson)

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 27 June, 2008 - 1:47pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 11 January, 2015 - 11:12pm

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