Megasoma
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Dynastinae
Tribus: Dynastini
Genus: Megasoma
Species (18):
M. actaeon –
M. anubis –
M. cedrosa –
M. elephas –
M. gyas –
M. hermes –
M. hyperion –
M. janus –
M. joergenseni –
M. lecontei –
M. mars –
M. nogueirai –
M. occidentale –
M. pachecoi –
M. punctulatum –
M. sleeperi –
M. svobodaorum –
M. thersites –
M. vogti
In synonymy (3):
M. porioni –
M. prandii –
M. ramirezorum –
M. rumbucheri
Name
[edit]Megasoma Kirby, 1825: 566 (gender: Neuter, following ICZN Article 30.1.2)
- Type species: Scarabaeus actaeon Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation.
Synonyms
[edit]- Megalosoma Burmeister, 1847
- Lycophontes Bruch, 1910
- Megasominus Casey, 1915
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Kirby, W. 1825. A description of such genera and species of insects, as alluded to in the "Introduction to Entomology" of Messrs. Kirby and Spence, as appear not to have been before sufficiently noticed or described. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 14: 563–572. Internet Archive [original description: p. 566]
- Prandi, M., Grossi, P.C. & Vaz-de-Mello, F.Z. 2020. Revision of the Megasoma (Megasoma) gyas (Jablonsky in Herbst, 1785) species group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). ZooKeys, 999: 109–145. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.999.53130 Reference page.
Links
[edit]- 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. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on Jun 14, 2017]