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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) » Deltochilini

Tribe Deltochilini

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

Boreocanthon ebenus (Say) - Boreocanthon ebenus

Tumblebug Dung Beetle - Boreocanthon simplex

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Scarabaeinae (Dung Beetles)

Tribe Deltochilini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Canthonini Péringuey 1900 ‒see (1)

Explanation of Names

Deltochilini Lacordaire 1856

Numbers

~30 spp. in 5 genera in our area(2), almost 800 spp. in 64 genera total(3)

Identification

metatibia slender (left)

Key to the genera/subgenera (Malagoniella not included)

1 Protarsi absent .................................. Deltochilum

Protarsi present ................................... 2

2 Metatibia with 2 terminal spurs ............. Melanocanthon

Metatibia with one terminal spur .......... 3

3 Clypeus bidentate or notched ........................... 4

Clypeus quadridentate ..................................... 5

4 Black, bronze, sometimes with greenish hue; granulate; 11-22 mm ....................... Canthon s. str.

Bright green or purple bronze, never gray or black; shiny; 2-4 mm .................... Canthon (Glaphyrocanthon)

5(3) Metafemur anteriorly unmargined; clypeal teeth large; granulate black; 4-10 mm ..... Boreocanthon

Metafemur anteriorly margined; clypeal teeth small; shiny metallic; 3-5 mm ....... Pseudocanthon [Similar to Ateuchus, but legs slender]

Works Cited

1.	Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) Bouchard P. et al. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.

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.	Catalogue of Life

Contributed by Cotinis on 20 January, 2006 - 1:59am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 14 November, 2023 - 7:53pm

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