Taxonavigation

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Melolonthinae
Tribus: Hopliini
Subtribus: Anisonychina, Heterochelina, Hopliina, Lepisiina, Madahopliina, Pachycnemina.

Name

• Hopliini Burmeister, 1855
  • Authority for current placement: Bouchard, P. et al. 2011

References

• Ahrens, D.; Scott, M.; Vogler, A.P. 2011: The phylogeny of monkey beetles based on mitochondrial and ribosomal RNA genes (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Hopliini). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 60(3): 408–415. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.04.011
• Goldblatt, P.; Bernhardt, P.; Manning, J.C. 1998: Pollination of petaloid geophytes by monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Hopliini) in southern Africa. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 85(2): 215–230. JSTOR
• Goldblatt, P.; Manning, J.C. 2011: Hopliine beetles (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Hopliini), specialized pollinators of the southern African flora. Curtis's botanical magazine, 28(4): 238–259. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8748.2011.01752.x
• Johnson, S.D.; Midgley, J.J. 2001: Pollination by monkey beetles (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini): do color and dark centers of flowers influence alighting behavior? Environmental entomology, 30(5): 861–868. DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-30.5.861
• Mayer, C.; Soka, G.; Picker, M. 2006: The importance of monkey beetle (Scarabaeidae: Hopliini) pollination for Aizoaceae and Asteraceae in grazed and ungrazed areas at Paulshoek, Succulent Karoo, South Africa. Journal of insect conservation, 10(4): 323–333. DOI: 10.1007/s10841-006-9006-0
• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page. 

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