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Genus Anomala

Coleoptera - Anomala Beetle IMG_0206 - Anomala undulata Exomala orientalis - Anomala orientalis - male - female Anomala marginata? - Anomala marginata Scarabaeidae - Anomala marginata on the painted wall - Anomala orientalis Anomala undulata? - Anomala Anomala? - Anomala
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 Rutelinae (Shining Leaf Chafers)
Tribe Anomalini
Genus Anomala
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Phyllopertha Stephens 1830, Callistethus Blanchard 1851, Paranomala Casey 1915, Exomala Reitter 1903
revised in (1)
Explanation of Names
Anomala Samouelle 1819
Latin anomala 'irregular, deviant'
Numbers
48 spp. in our area(2), 180 in the New World; a huge group, with >1,000 described species worldwide (some of questionable validity)(3)
Size
6‒12 mm
Identification
Species identification
Mesosternum between mesocoxae concave to flat anteriorly, not elevated posteriorly to more than low umbo ......... top, most spp.
Mesocoxae separated by distinctly convex to prominently raised mesosternal process, sometimes porrect ...... bottom, includes spp. such as A. marginata, lucicola & oblivia [These were placed in the genus Pachystethus in much of the older American literature and Callistethus was used in combination with marginata in(4)]

Key to NA species in (5)
Range
worldwide
Print References
(6)
Works Cited
1.Relaciones filogenéticas del género Anomala Samouelle (Coleoptera: Melolonthidae: Rutelinae: Anomalini).
Ramírez-Ponce, A. and M.A. Morón. 2009. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 80(2): 357–394.
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.Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles (by Brett Ratcliffe and Mary Liz Jameson)
4.The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska
Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.
5.Revision of the Scarabaeidae: Anomalinae. 3. A key to the species of Anomala of America north of Mexico
R.W. Potts. 1977. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 53: 129-134.
6.Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina
Phillip J. Harpootlian. 2001. Clemson University Public Service.