Altitatiayus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Lucanidae
Subfamilia: Lucaninae
Genus: Altitatiayus
Species (7): A. campoi – A. dulceae – A. godinhorum – A. koikei – A. rotundatus – A. ruficollis – A. trifurcatus
Name

Altitatiayus Weinreich, 1960

Authority for current placement: Grossi & Paulsen, 2009: 29–30 ('new status')
Original status: valid subgenus of Sclerostomus
Type species: Sclerostomus rotundatus Boileau, 1902
Fixation: original designation

References

Grossi, P.C.; Almeida, L.M. 2010: Revision of the genus Altitatiayus Weinreich (Coleoptera, Lucanidae, Lucaninae). Revista brasileira de entomologia, 54(4): 588–600. DOI: 10.1590/S0085-56262010000400009
Grossi, P.C.; Koike, R.M. 2011: Description of a new species of the stag beetle genus Altitatiayus Weinreich (Coleoptera, Lucanidae, Lucaninae). Insecta mundi, 189: 1-4. PDF.
Grossi, P.C.; Paulsen, M.J. 2009: Generic limits in South American stag beetles: taxa currently misplaced in Sclerostomus Burmeister (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae: Sclerostomini). Zootaxa, 2139: 23–42. Abstract & excerpt
Grossi, P.C.; Racca-Filho, F. 2004: A new Brazilian stag beetle of the genus Sclerostomus Burmeister, 1847 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Zootaxa, 575: 1–4. Abstract & excerpt
Weinreich, E. 1960: Revision südamerikanischer Lucanidae (Ins. Col.), II. Die Gattungen Charagmophorus, Metadorcus, Scortizus, Apterodorcus, Beneshius, Sclerostomus und Pycnosiphorus. Senckenbergiana biologica, 41: 41–95.

Links

Altitatiayus in Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles
ION [needs update]
Nomenclator Zoologicus