Xylotrupes

Xylotrupes ulysses mas

Animalia — Arthropoda

Classis : Insecta
Ordo : Coleoptera
Familia : Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia : Dynastinae
Genus : Xylotrupes
Hope, 1837

Xylotrupes (a vocabulis Graecis ξύλον 'lignum' + τρυπάω 'terebro') est genus Dynastinarum (scarabaeorum-rhinocerotum). J. Mark Rowland, investigatione phylogenetica facta, has species sex decrevit:^[1]

X. florensis, insularum Sundanarum minorum
X. meridionalis, Taprobanes et Indiae
X. ulysses, Celebes, Moluccarum, Australiae, Papuae Novae Guineae, ac Melanesiae
X. pubescens, Philippinarum, Sumatrae, ac Sulavesiae
X. mniszechi, Asiae Meridianae et Orientalis
X. gideon, Malaesiae occidentalis, Bornei, atque Indonesiae a Sumatra ad insulas Sunda minores

Notae

↑ Rowland, J. Mark (2003). Male horn dimorphism, phylogeny and systematics of rhinoceros beetles of the genus Xylotrupes (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 51: 213–58.

Nexus externi

Situs scientifici: • NCBI • Biodiversity • Encyclopedia of Life

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[1] Rowland, J. Mark (2003). Male horn dimorphism, phylogeny and systematics of rhinoceros beetles of the genus Xylotrupes (Scarabaeidae: Coleoptera). Australian Journal of Zoology 51: 213–58.

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