Ceratophyus

Ceratophyus is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 13 described species in Ceratophyus.[1][2][3]

Ceratophyus polyceros

Ceratophyus
Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Geotrupidae
Subfamily: Geotrupinae
Genus: Ceratophyus
Fischer von Waldheim, 1823

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Ceratophyus:

  • Ceratophyus alloini Prunier, Tauzin & Rosset, 2016
  • Ceratophyus dauricus (Jekel, 1865)
  • Ceratophyus gopherinus Cartwright, 1966 (gopher beetle)
  • Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi (Fairmaire, 1856)
  • Ceratophyus kabaki Nikolajev, 2007
  • Ceratophyus maghrebinicus Hillert & Kral, 2013
  • Ceratophyus martinezi Lauffer, 1909
  • Ceratophyus mesasiaticus Medvedev & Nikolajev, 1974
  • Ceratophyus polyceros (Pallas, 1771)
  • Ceratophyus rossii (Jekel, 1865)
  • Ceratophyus schaffrathi Hillert & Kral, 2013
  • Ceratophyus sinicus Zunino, 1973
  • Ceratophyus sulcicornis (Fairmaire, 1887)

References
  1. "Ceratophyus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. "Ceratophyus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.

Further reading
  • Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.


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