Cyclocephala

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: Dynastinae
Tribus: Cyclocephalini
Genus: Cyclocephala
Species (350): C. abrelata – C. acoma – C. acuta – C. aequatoria – C. affinis – C. alazonia – C. alexi – C. almitana – C. altamontana – C. alutacea – C. alvarengai – C. amazona – C. amblyopsis – C. ampliata – C. amplitarsis – C. anibali – C. antoinei – C. aravaipensis – C. arenosa – C. arnaudi – C. arrowiana – C. atricapilla – C. atriceps – C. atricolor – C. atripes – C. barrerai – C. batesi – C. bella – C. berti – C. bicolor – C. bicolorata – C. bimaculata – C. binotata – C. bleuzeni – C. boliviana – C. bollei – C. borburatae – C. borealis – C. boucheri – C. boulardi – C. brasiliana – C. brevipennis – C. brevis – C. brittoni – C. burmeisteri – C. caelestis – C. camachicola – C. capitata – C. carbonaria – C. cardini – C. carinatipennis – C. cartwrighti – C. casanova – C. castanea – C. castaniella – C. caussaneli – C. cearae – C. celata – C. cerea – C. chalumeaui – C. chera – C. chiquita – C. colasi – C. collaris – C. comata – C. compacta – C. complanata – C. concolor – C. confusa – C. conspicua – C. contraria – C. coriacea – C. couturieri – C. crassa – C. crepuscularis – C. cribrata – C. curta – C. dalensi – C. deceptor – C. dechambrei – C. decorella – C. defecta – C. deltoides – C. dichroa – C. dilatata – C. diluta – C. discicollis – C. discolor – C. dispar – C. distincta – C. divaricata – C. dolichotarsa – C. dominicana – C. duodecimpunctata – C. dupuisi – C. durantonorum – C. dyscinetoides – C. emarginata – C. endroedii – C. endroedy-youngai – C. englemani – C. enigma – C. epistomalis – C. ergastuli – C. erotylina – C. everardoi – C. falsa – C. fankhaeneli – C. fasciolata – C. ferruginea – C. figurata – C. flavipennis – C. flavoscutellaris – C. flora – C. forcipulata – C. forsteri – C. freudei – C. freyi – C. frontalis – C. fulgurata – C. fulvipennis – C. gabaldoni – C. genieri – C. gigantea – C. goetzi – C. gravis – C. gregaria – C. guaguarum – C. guianae – C. guttata – C. guycolasi – C. halffteriana – C. hardyi – C. hartmannorum – C. helavai – C. herteli – C. hiekei – C. hirsuta – C. hirta – C. histrionica – C. holmbergi – C. howdenannae – C. husingi – C. hylaea – C. iani – C. immaculata – C. inca – C. insulicola – C. isabellina – C. isthmiensis – C. italoi – C. jalapensis – C. jauffreti – C. kahanoffae – C. kaszabi – C. kechua – C. knobelae – C. krombeini – C. kuntzeniana – C. labidion – C. lachaumei – C. laevis – C. lamarcki – C. laminata – C. larssoni – C. latericia – C. latipennis – C. latreillei – C. lecourti – C. letiranti – C. lichyi – C. ligyrina – C. lineata – C. lineigera – C. liomorpha – C. literata – C. lizeri – C. longa – C. longicollis – C. longimana – C. longitarsis – C. longula – C. lunulata – C. lurida – C. lutea – C. machadoi – C. macrophylla – C. maculata – C. maculiventris – C. mafaffa – C. magdalenae – C. malleri – C. malyi – C. mannheimsi – C. marginalis – C. marginicollis – C. marianista – C. marqueti – C. martinezi – C. marylizae – C. mateoi – C. mathani – C. mecynotarsis – C. megalophylla – C. meinanderi – C. melanae – C. melanocephala – C. melanopoda – C. melolonthida – C. mesophylla – C. metrica – C. miamiensis – C. minuchae – C. minuta – C. modesta – C. molesta – C. monacha – C. monzoni – C. moreti – C. morphoidina – C. multiplex – C. munda – C. mustacha – C. mutata – C. nana – C. nicolasi – C. nigerrima – Cyclocephala nigra Endrödi C. nigritarsis – C. nigrobasalis – C. nigropicta – C. niguasa – C. nike – C. nodanotherwon – C. notata – C. obscura – C. occipitalis – C. ocellata – C. ochracea – C. octopunctata – C. ohausiana – C. olivieri – C. ovulum – C. pan – C. panthera – C. paraflora – C. paraguayensis – C. parallela – C. pardolocarnoi – C. pasadenae – C. perconfusa – C. pereirai – C. perforata – C. perplexa – C. peruana – C. pichinchana – C. picipes – C. picta – C. pilosa – C. pilosicollis – C. pokornyi – C. pompanoni – C. poncheli – C. porioni – C. prelli – C. prolongata – C. proxima – C. pseudoconfusa – C. pseudomelanocephala – C. puberula – C. pugnax – C. pulchra – C. puncticollis – C. putrida – C. pygidialis – C. pygidiata – C. quadripunctata – C. quatuordecimpunctata – C. quercina – C. quisqueya – C. rangelana – C. recta – C. robusta – C. rogerpauli – C. rogezi – C. rondoniana – C. rorulenta – C. rotundipenis – C. rubescens – C. rufa – C. rufescens – C. ruficollis – C. rufonigra – C. rufovaria – C. rustica – C. saltini – C. sanguinicollis – C. santaritae – C. sarahae – C. sardadebiae – C. sarpedon – C. scarabaeina – C. schmitzorum – C. seditiosa – C. setosa – C. sexpunctata – C. signaticollis – C. signatoides – C. similis – C. simillima – C. simulatrix – C. sinaloae – C. sinuosa – C. spangleri – C. sparsa – C. spilopyga – C. stictica – C. stockwelli – C. striata – C. subsignata – C. supernana – C. suturalis – C. sylviae – C. testacea – C. tetrica – C. tidula – C. toulgoeti – C. tridentata – C. tronchonii – C. tucumana – C. tutilina – C. tylifera – C. ukuku – C. unamas – C. undata – C. unidentata – C. variabilis – C. varians – C. variipenis – C. variolosa – C. verticalis – C. vestita – C. vidanoi – C. villosa – C. vincentiae – C. vinosa – C. virgo – C. viridis – C. vittoscutellaris – C. wandae – C. weidneri – C. williami – C. zischkai – C. zodion – C. zurstrasseni
Name

Cyclocephala Dejean, 1821

Type species:

References
Primary references

Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1821. Catalogue de la collection de coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean. Crevot, Paris. viii + 138 + [2] pp. BHL Reference page. [original description]

Additional references

Dupuis, F. 2009: Cyclocephala rotundipenis, nouvelle espèce de Colombie (Dynastidae) . Coléoptères 15(4).
Dupuis, F. 2018: Espèces nouvelles ou méconnues de Cyclocephala Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera, Dynastidae) . Coléoptères 24(1): 1-12. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Grossi, P.C., Santos, M.D. & Almeida, L.M. 2016. Two new species of Cyclocephala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthidae) from Minas Gerais State, Brazil: IN Pinto et al., Living among dragons: A festschrift in honor to Dr. Angelo B. M. Machado on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa 4078(1): 245–251. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.22.Reference page.
Joly, L.J. 2009: Review of the species in the Cyclocephala bicolor Laporte species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Zootaxa 2048: 47–64. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.
Moore, M.R., Cave, R.D. & Branham, M.A. 2018. Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini). ZooKeys 745: 101–378. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.745.23685. Reference page.
Mora-Aguilar, E.F.; Delgado, L. 2012: A new species of Cyclocephala Dejean (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini) from the cloud forests of southeastern Mexico and description of the female of Cyclocephala berti Delgado. Coleopterists bulletin 66(2): 139–142. DOI: 10.1649/072.066.0209
Paz, F., Ratcliffe, B.C. & Figueroa, L. 2022. Three new species of Cyclocephala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) from Amazonian Peru and a checklist of Cyclocephala species in Peru. Zootaxa 5087(3): 427–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.2 Paywall. Reference page.
Ratcliffe, B.C.; Cave, R.D. 2009: New species of Cyclocephala Dejean, 1821 from Guatemala (Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Cyclocephalini). Coleopterists bulletin 63: 325–332. DOI: 10.1649/1171.1

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 Jun 10, 2017]

Cyclocephala is a genus of scarab beetles from the subfamily Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Beetles of this genus occur from southeastern Canada to Argentina and the West Indies.

Adults of this genus are nocturnal or crepuscular, and are usually attracted to lights.[1]

Selected species

This is a large genus and new species continue to be added.[1]

Cyclocephala almitana
Cyclocephala amazona
Cyclocephala amblyopsis
Cyclocephala atripes
Cyclocephala atripes
Cyclocephala barroensis
Cyclocephala brittoni
Cyclocephala borealis - Northern masked chafer
Cyclocephala carbonaria
Cyclocephala cartwrighti
Cyclocephala castanea
Cyclocephala castaniella
Cyclocephala colasi
Cyclocephala complanata
Cyclocephala concolor
Cyclocephala confusa
Cyclocephala conspicua
Cyclocephala discicollis
Cyclocephala discolor
Cyclocephala elegans
Cyclocephala epistomalis
Cyclocephala erotylina
Cyclocephala fasciolata
Cyclocephala fulgurata
Cyclocephala gravis
Cyclocephala gregaria
Cyclocephala hardyi
Cyclocephala herteli
Cyclocephala hirta - Western masked chafer
Cyclocephala howdeni
Cyclocephala kaszabi
Cyclocephala krombeini
Cyclocephala laminata
Cyclocephala ligyrina
Cyclocephala lunulata
Cyclocephala lurida
Cyclocephala macrophylla
Cyclocephala maffafa
Cyclocephala melanae
Cyclocephala melanocephala
Cyclocephala modesta
Cyclocephala nigerrima
Cyclocephala nigritarsis
Cyclocephala nigrobasalis
Cyclocephala nodanotherwon
Cyclocephala pan
Cyclocephala pardolocarnoi
Cyclocephala porioni
Cyclocephala prolongata
Cyclocephala puberula
Cyclocephala pubescens
Cyclocephala putrida
Cyclocephala quadripunctata
Cyclocephala rubescens
Cyclocephala sanguinicollis
Cyclocephala santaritae
Cyclocephala sexpunctata
Cyclocephala signaticollis
Cyclocephala sparsa
Cyclocephala spermophila
Cyclocephala stictica
Cyclocephala testacea
Cyclocephala variabilis
Cyclocephala weidneri
Cyclocephala zodion

Predation

Several species of Cyclocephala serve as hosts for the parasitic larvae of the South American robber fly Mallophora ruficauda, especially C. signaticollis.[2]
See also

List of Cyclocephala species

References

Ratcliffe, Brett. "Cyclocephala". Generic Guide to New World Beetles. University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology. Retrieved 29 August 2012.

Barrantes, M. E.; Castelo, M. K. (June 2014). "Host specificity in the host-seeking larva of the dipteran parasitoid Mallophora ruficauda and the influence of age on parasitism decisions". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 104 (3): 295–306. doi:10.1017/S0007485314000029. ISSN 0007-4853.