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Tribe Cyclocephalini

june beetle? may beetle? Masked Chafer? - Cyclocephala Rice Beetle - Dyscinetus morator Cyclocephala lunulata Beetle - Cyclocephala Male, Cyclocephala aravaipensis Ratcliffe? - Cyclocephala aravaipensis - male Other Cyclocephala? - Cyclocephala Male, Cyclocephala pasadenae - Cyclocephala pasadenae - male Dyscinetus laevicollis? - Dyscinetus laevicollis
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 Dynastinae (Rhinoceros Beetles)
Tribe Cyclocephalini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
taxonomy recently reviewed in (1)
Explanation of Names
Cyclocephalini Laporte 1840
Numbers
~540 spp. in 17 genera total(2)
Identification
keys to genera and species of our fauna in (3)(4)
Works Cited
1.Synopsis of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae)
Matthew R. Moore, Ronald D. Cave, Marc D. Branham. 2018. ZooKeys 745: 1-99.
2.Catalogue of Life
3.Synoptic revision of the United States scarab beetles of the subfamily Dynastinae, No. 1: Tribe Cyclocephalini
Saylor L.W. 1945. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 35: 378-386.
4.The Dynastine Scarab Beetles of the USA and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
Brett C. Ratcliffe & Ronald D. Cave. 2017. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 30, 298 pp.