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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » May Beetles and Junebugs (Melolonthinae) » Rhizotrogini

Tribe Rhizotrogini

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Works Cited
May Beetle - Phyllophaga Phyllophaga - Phyllophaga beckeri Phyllophaga drakii - female Scarab - Phyllophaga crenulata - male Phyllophaga vehemens - male Beetle - Phyllophaga Phyllophaga Hairy Scarab Beetle - Phyllophaga crenulata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles)
Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
Subfamily Melolonthinae (May Beetles and Junebugs)
Tribe Rhizotrogini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
the genera placed here used to be treated under Melolonthini --see (1)
Triodonina Rivera-Gasperín & Morón, 2013
Explanation of Names
Rhizotrogini Burmeister 1855
Identification
distinguished from Melolonthini by having a narrow metepisternum(1)
Works Cited
1.On the tribal classification of the Nearctic Melolonthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), with descriptions of new species of Acoma
Evans A.V., Smith, A.B.T. 2020. Zootaxa 4748: 51–77.
Contributed by v belov on 22 July, 2021 - 6:15pm
Last updated 22 July, 2021 - 8:18pm

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