Taxonavigation
Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Scarabaeinae
Tribus: Scarabaeini
Genus: Pachysoma
Species (15):
P. aesculapius –
P. bennigseni –
P. denticolle –
P. endroedyi –
P. fitzsimonsi –
P. gariepinum –
P. glentoni –
P. hessi –
P. hippocrates –
P. marginatum –
P. rodriguesi –
P. rotundigenum –
P. schinzi –
P. striatum –
P. valeflorae
Name
Pachysoma Macleay, 1821
- Type species: Pachysoma hippocrates MacLeay, 1821, by original designation.
Synonymy
- Pachysoma Macleay, 1821
- Scarabaeus (Pachysoma) Macleay, 1821; Harrison & Philips, 2003
- Artalus Gistl, 1848
- Pachysoma Macleay, 1821; Forgie et al., 2006
- Irrorhotides Shipp, 1896
- Type species: Irrorhotides fryi Shipp, 1896 [=Pachysoma striatum Castelnau, 1840], by monotypy.
- Neopachysoma Ferreira, 1953
- Type species: Pachysoma denticolle Péringuey, 1888, by original designation.
[list of synonyms after Harrison, Scholtz & Chown (2003: 311)]
References
Additional references
- Forgie, S.A.; Kryger, U.; Bloomer, P.; Scholtz, C.H. 2006: Evolutionary relationships among the Scarabaeini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) based on combined molecular and morphological data. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 40: 662–678. ISSN: 1055-7903 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.04.018
- Harrison, J. du G.; Philips, T.K. 2003: Phylogeny of Scarabaeus (Pachysoma MacLeay) stat. nov., and related flightless Scarabaeini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 40: 47–71. full article (PDF) Reference page.
- Harrison, J.du G.; Scholtz, C.H.; Chown, S.L. 2003: A revision of the endemic south-western African dung beetle subgenus Scarabaeus (Pachysoma) MacLeay, including notes on other flightless Scarabaeini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of natural history, 37: 305–355. DOI: 10.1080/713834683
- Holm, E.; Scholtz, C.H. 1979: A revision of the genus Pachysoma M'Leay with an evaluation of the subtribe Pachysomina Ferreira and its genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 42 (2): 225–244.
- Scholtz, C.H.; Harrison, J. du G.; Grebennikov, V.V. : Dung beetle (Scarabaeus (Pachysoma)) biology and immature stages: reversal to ancestral states under desert conditions (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)? Biological journal of the Linnean Society, 83 (4): 453–460. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00389.x
- Sole, C.L.; Scholtz, C.H.; Bastos, A.D.S. 2005: Phylogeography of the Namib Desert dung beetles Scarabaeus (Pachysoma) MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of biogeography, 32: 75–84. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01124.x
Links
- Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on April 4, 2017]