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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Shining Leaf Chafers (Rutelinae) » Anomalini » Anomala

Genus Anomala

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Print References · Works Cited

Exomala orientalis - Anomala orientalis - male - female

on the painted wall - Anomala orientalis

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.

Contributed by Cotinis on 23 July, 2004 - 6:10am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Phillip Harpootlian, ghanley1, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 21 June, 2024 - 3:11pm

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