Dicronocephalus

Dicronocephalus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Cetoniinae
Tribus: Goliathini
Subtribus: Dicronocephalina
Genus: Dicronocephalus
Species (6): D. adamsi – D. dabryi – D. shimomurai – D. uenoi – D. wallichi – D. yui

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Unaccepted names: D. diminuata

Name

Dicronocephalus Hope, 1837

• Emend. pro Dicronocephalus Hope, 1831

Synonymy

• Dicranocephalus Hope, 1831 (nec. Dicranocephalus Hahn, 1826)
• Dicranoceps Medvedev, 1972

References

Primary references

• Hope 1837: Coleopt. Manual, 116; Westwood 1842, Arcana Entom., (8) 116.

Additional references

• Devecis 2008: [Contribution to the knowledge on the genus Dicronocephalus Hope 1831 and description of Dicronocephalus chantrainei. New species of Cetoniidae of North Myanmar.] Cetoniimania, 5(1-2): 62–70.
• Krajcik, M. 2014: Addenda to checklist of the world Scarabaeoidea 2012. Part II. New synonyms in Dicronocephalus Hope (Cetoniinae). animma.x 59: 1–11. [Not seen] Reference page. 
• Young, R.M. 2012: A diminutive new species of Dicronocephalus Hope (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) from Xizang Zizhiqu (Tibet Autonomous Region), China, with a distributional analysis of the genus. The Coleopterists Bulletin 66(3): 203-208. DOI: 10.1649/072.066.0304 Reference page. 

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 May 1, 2017]