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Tribe Cyclocephalini

Representative Images

Cyclocephala lurida???? - Cyclocephala Found drowning - Cyclocephala - male Cyclocephala lurida - Southern Masked Chafer? - Cyclocephala Unknown beetle - Cyclocephala Unidentified Beetle - Cyclocephala beetle061717 - Cyclocephala Male, Cyclocephala sp. - Cyclocephala hirta - male Cyclocephala lunulata? - Cyclocephala lunulata

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.
Contributed by Cotinis on 21 January, 2006 - 6:55am
Additional contributions by v belov, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 8 November, 2025 - 2:25pm

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