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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)

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea - Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Print References · Works Cited

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Unk beetle - Euphoria inda

Bolbocerosoma ritcheri - male - female

Dichelonyx? - Dichelonyx

Odontotaenius floridanus

Brick Red Beetle - Diplotaxis

Peddler Hill-00BG-J.1975.01 - Cremastocheilus angularis

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)

Numbers

11 families in our area (12 total), mostly elevated recently from subfamilies of the Scarabaeidae(1)(2)

Identification

Guide to larvae in(3)

Print References

New World(4), so. CA(5), Nebraska(6), Florida(7), South Carolina(8), Texas(9)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist and Nomenclatural Authority File of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm

2.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

3.	White Grubs and Their Allies, a Study of North American Scarabaeoid Larvae Paul O. Ritcher. 1966. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis. 219 pp.

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

5.	The Scarabaeoid beetles of San Diego County, California. Part I. Introduction... McPeak R.H., Oberbauer T.A. 2008. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 40: 1-24.

6.	The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.

7.	The Scarab Beetles of Florida Robert Woodruff. 1973. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

8.	Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina Phillip J. Harpootlian. 2001. Clemson University Public Service.

9.	An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas. Edward G. Riley & Charles S. Wolfe. 2003. Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement. 37 pp.

Contributed by Cotinis on 9 January, 2006 - 9:11am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 16 January, 2015 - 5:39am

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