Dynastini

Dynastes hercules

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: Dynastinae
Tribus: Dynastini
Genera: Allomyrina – Augosoma – Chalcosoma – Debeckius – Dynastes – Endebius – Eupatorus – Golofa – Haploscapanes – Megasoma – Pachyoryctes – Trypoxylus – Xyloscaptes – Xylotrupes

Name

Dynastini MacLeay, 1819: 64

• Type genus: Dynastes MacLeay, 1819.

Synonymy

• Dynastidae MacLeay, 1819: 64
• Xylotrupidae Hope, 1838: 319
  • Type genus: Xylotrupes Hope, 1837.
• Megasominae Swainson, 1840: 210
  • Type genus: Megasoma Kirby, 1825.

References

Primary references

• Macleay, W.S. 1819. Horae entomologicae: or essays on the annulose animals. Containing geneal observations on the geography, manners, and natural affinities of the Insects which compose the genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental remarks on the genera Lucanus and Hister of the same author. With an appendix and plates. Vol. 1. Part 1. London: S. Bagster, xxx + [2] + 160 pp., 3 pls. BHL Reference page.  [original description: p. 64]

Additional references

• Rowland, J.M. & Miller, K.B. 2012. Phylogeny and systematics of the giant rhinoceros beetles (Scarabaeidae: Dynastini). Insecta Mundi 0263: 1–15. PDF. Reference page.