Cheirotonus

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: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Melolonthinae
Tribus: Euchirini
Genus: Cheirotonus
Species (10): C. battareli – C. formosanus – C. fujiokai – C. gestroi – C. jambar – C. jansoni – C. macleayi – †C. otai – C. parryi – C. peracanus – C. terunumai
Name

Cheirotonus Hope, 1840: 78
References
Primary references

Hope, F.W. 1840. Descriptions of some nondescript insects from Assam, collected by William Griffith: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1(9): 77–79. [original description: p. 78]

Additional references

Baba 1997: A new subspecies of the Cheirotonus gestroi Pouillaude, 1913 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Euchirinae) from south Burma (Myanmar). Gekkan-Mushi 317: 3–6.
Kurosawa, Y. 1984: Discovery of a new long-armed scarabaeid beetle (Coleoptera) on the Island of Okinawa. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A) 16: 73–78.
Medvedev, S. 1960: Fn. USSR: Coleoptera 10 no. 4. Lamellicornia (Scarabaeidae), subfamm. Euchirinae, Dynastinae, Glaphyrinae, Trichiinae. Zool Inst Akad Nauk SSSR Moscow (n.s.), (74): 1–398.
Minet 1981: Description d'un Cheirotonus nouveau de Malaysia. (Col. Scarabaeidae Euchirinae). Nouvelle revue d'entomologie, 11: 287–295. [not seen]
Minet 1987: Description d'une nouvelle espece de Cheirotonus de Thailande (Col. Scarabaeidae Euchirinae). Bulletin de la Societe Sciences Nat, (53): 3–4. [not seen]
Muramoto 1994: A new species of the genus Cheirotonus Hope, 1841 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Euchirinae) from central China. Gekkan-Mushi, 282: 2, 8-11. [not seen]
Muramoto 2008: A new species of the genus Cheirotonus Hope, 1840 from Tibet, with a list of the genus Cheirotonus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Euchirinae). Kogane, 9: 85–94. [not seen]
Ueda, K. 1989: A Miocene fossil of long-armed scarabaeid beetle from Tottori, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (9): 105–110, plate 1. [not seen]
1996: The specific name of the Cheirotonus species (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Euchirinae) from the Malay Peninsula. Elytra, Tokyo, 24(1) [not seen]

Vernacular names
日本語: テナガコガネ属