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Tribe Onthophagini

Bull Headed Dung Beetle - Onthophagus taurus - male Onthophagus subtropicus Howden & Cartwright - Onthophagus subtropicus Scooped Scarab - Onthophagus hecate - male Dung Beetle - Onthophagus hecate Male, Digitonthophagus gazella? - Digitonthophagus gazella - male March-0BG.J.2006.01 - Onthophagus Hirsute carrion scarabaeinae - Onthophagus Gazelle Scarab - Digitonthophagus gazella - male
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 Onthophagini
Explanation of Names
Onthophagini Streubel 1846
Numbers
close to 3,000 spp. in >40 genera worldwide(1), mostly African(2)(3); in our area, a single native genus (Onthophagus) with 37 spp. + one adventive sp. of Digitonthophagus(4)
Range
worldwide
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Life
2.The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska
Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.
3.Phylogenetic analyses reveal reliable morphological markers to classify mega-diversity in Onthophagini dung beetles...
Tarasov S.I., Solodovnikov A.Y. 2011. Cladistics 27(5): 490–528.
4.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.