Cremastocheilus

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: Cetoniinae
Tribus: Cremastocheilini
Subtribus: Cremastocheilina
Genus: Cremastocheilus
Subgenera: Anatrinodia – Macropodina – Myrmecotonus – Trinodia

Species (50): C. academicus – C. angularis – C. armatus – C. beameri – C. bifoveatus – C. brevisetosus – C. canaliculatus – C. castaneus – C. chapini – C. compressipes – C. congener – C. constricticollis – C. cribripennis – C. crinitus – C. densicollis – C. excavatus – C. harrisi – C. hirsutus – C. incisus – C. knochii – C. lengi – C. maritimus – C. mentalis – C. mexicanus – C. montanus – C. nitens – C. obliquus – C. opaculus – C. planatus – C. planipes – C. pocularis – C. pugetanus – C. pulvurulentus – C. puncticollis – C. quadratus – C. quadricollis – C. retractus – C. robinsoni – C. saucius – C. schaumi – C. setosifrons – C. spinifer – C. squamulosus – C. stathamae – C. tibialis – C. tomentosus – C. tridens – C. variolosus – C. westwoodi – C. wheeleri

Cremastocheilus (s. str.) species (33): C. armatus – C. bifoveatus – C. brevisetosus – C. canaliculatus – C. castaneus – C. chapini – C. compressipes – C. congener – C. constricticollis – C. cribripennis – C. densicollis – C. harrisi – C. incisus – C. knochi – C. lengi – C. maritimus – C. mentalis – C. montanus – C. nitens – C. obliquus – C. pocularis – C. pugetanus – C. pulvurulentus – C. puncticollis – C. quadratus – C. retractus – C. schaumi – C. squamulosus – C. stathamae – C. tibialis – C. tridens – C. variolosus – C. westwoodi
Name

Cremastocheilus Knoch, 1801: 115

Type species:

References
Primary references

Knoch, A.W. 1801. Neu Beyträge zur Insectenkunde. Erster Theil. Leipzig, Schwickertschen Verlage: 1–208. BHL. Internet Archive. [original description: p. 115]

Additional references

Mynhardt, G.; Wenzel, J.W. 2010: Phylogenetic analysis of the myrmecophilous Cremastocheilus Knoch (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae), based on external adult morphology. In: Ratcliffe, B.; Krell, F.-T. (eds) Current advances in Scarabaeoidea research. ZooKeys, 34: 129–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.34.262

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 May 1, 2017]

Cremastocheilus is a genus of myermecophilic beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are at least 40 described species in Cremastocheilus.[1][2]

See also

List of Cremastocheilus species

References

"Cremastocheilus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

"Cremastocheilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 January 2018.

Further reading

Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.