Phanaeus difformis
male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Phanaeus
Species:
P. difformis
Binomial name
Phanaeus difformis
Leconte, 1847
Synonyms
  • Phanaeus magnificens Robinson, 1948

Phanaeus difformis is a species of true dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae that is native to south-central United States and adjacent far northern Mexico.[1][2][3] It may hybridize with the generally more common P. vindex.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Phanaeus difformis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Phanaeus difformis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Zídek, J.; Edmonds, W.D. (2012). "Taxonomy of Phanaeus revisited: Revised keys to and comments on species of the New World dung beetle genus Phanaeus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini)". Insecta Mundi. 2012 (274): 1–108. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5182095.

Further reading

Media related to Phanaeus difformis at Wikimedia Commons

  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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