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Issue: Vol. 4170 No. 3: 26 Sept. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.3.4
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An annotated checklist of the New World pentodontine scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini) 

Grupo de Investigación Insectos de Colombia, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Red Interacciones Multitróficas, Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, 91070 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Programa de Investigación. Corporación Sentido Natural. Calle 124 # 70F–79, Bogotá, Colombia.
Indian River Research & Education Center, University of Florida, Ft. Pierce, Florida, United States of America.
Grupo de Investigación Insectos de Colombia, Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Coleoptera Taxonomy biodiversity Scarabaeoidea Neartic Neotropics species catalog

Abstract

An updated and annotated checklist of the Pentodontini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) of the New World is presented. The tribe is composed of 32 genera and 151 species, including the introduced species Heteronychus arator (Fabricius).

 

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