Ceratophyus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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:Geotrupidae
Subfamilia: Geotrupinae
Tribus: Geotrupini
Genus: Ceratophyus
Species (13): C. amdoensis – C. dauricus – C. gopherinus – C. hoffmannseggi – C. kabaki – C. maghrebinicus – C. martinezi – C. mesasiaticus – C. polyceros – C. rossii – C. schaffrathi – C. sinicus – C. sulcicornis
Name

Ceratophyus Fischer von Waldheim, 1824

Type species:

References
Primary references
Additional references

Král, D., Jákl, S., Lu, Y.Y. & Bai, M. 2020. The genus Ceratophyus Fischer von Waldheim, 1824 (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) in China, along with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4747(2): 339–349. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.2.6. Paywall. Reference page.

Links

Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on April 23, 2017]

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

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

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

"Ceratophyus genus Information". BugGuide.net. 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.