Cucochodaeus

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: Ochodaeidae
Subfamilia: Ochodaeinae
Genus: Cucochodaeus
Species: C. sparsus
Name

Cucochodaeus Paulsen, 2007: 9, fig. 1

Type species: Ochodaeus sparsus LeConte, 1868: 51, by original designation.

Etymology: Cucochodaeus (cuc-, shortened from cucullus Latin = hood + Ochodaeus). The generic name, gender masculine, denotes the hoodlike pronotum that reaches the eyes and also projects more strongly above the head than in other Nearctic genera.

References

Paulsen, M.J. 2007: Nomenclatural changes in the Nearctic Ochodaeinae and description of two new genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae). Insecta mundi 0021: 1–13. PDFReference page. [original description: p. 9, fig. 1]

Cucochodaeus is a genus of sand-loving scarab beetles in the family Ochodaeidae. There is one described species in Cucochodaeus, C. sparsus.[1][2][3]
References

"Cucochodaeus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Cucochodaeus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Cucochodaeus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

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.