Dyscinetus

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: Dyscinetus
Species (21): D. australis – D. dubius – D. dytiscoides – D. fimosus – D. gagates – D. imitator – D. laevicollis – D. laevipunctatus – D. martinezi – D. mendax – D. minor – D. morator – D. olivaceus – D. ornaticaudus – D. paradytis – D. picipes – D. plicatus – D. questeli – D. rugifrons – D. sculptus – D. subsericeus
Name

Dyscinetus Harold, 1869: 123 [nom. nov.]

Type species:

Synonymy

New replacement name for Chalepus McLeay, 1819

References
Primary references

Harold, E. von. 1869. Abanderungen vergebener Namen. Coleopterologische Hefte 5: 122–125. [nom. nov.: p. 123]

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]

Dyscinetus is a genus of rice beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Dyscinetus.[1][2][3]
Dyscinetus morator

Species

These 24 species belong to the genus Dyscinetus:

Dyscinetus australis Joly & Escalona, 2002
Dyscinetus bitumerosus Casey
Dyscinetus dubius (Olivier, 1789)
Dyscinetus dytiscoides Arrow, 1911
Dyscinetus fimosus (Herbst, 1789)
Dyscinetus gagates (Burmeister, 1847)
Dyscinetus hypocrita Martínez
Dyscinetus imitator Ratcliffe, 1986
Dyscinetus laevicollis Arrow, 1937
Dyscinetus laevipunctatus Bates, 1888
Dyscinetus martinezi Joly & Escalona, 2002
Dyscinetus mendax Joly & Escalona, 2010
Dyscinetus minor Chapin, 1935
Dyscinetus morator (Fabricius, 1798) (rice beetle)
Dyscinetus olivaceus Höhne, 1923
Dyscinetus ornaticaudus Ratcliffe, 1986
Dyscinetus paradytis (Ponchel & Dechambre, 2003)
Dyscinetus picipes (Burmeister, 1847)
Dyscinetus plicatus (Burmeister, 1847)
Dyscinetus questeli Chalumeau, 1982
Dyscinetus rhomboidalis Casey
Dyscinetus rugifrons (Burmeister, 1847)
Dyscinetus sculptus Dupuis, 2006
Dyscinetus subsericeus (Burmeister, 1847)

References

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

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

Further reading

Moore, Matthew R.; Cave, Ronald D.; Branham, Marc 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. PMC 5904534. PMID 29670449.
Hardy, A. (1991). "Family: Scarabaeidae, Subfamilies Rutelinae and Dynastinae" (PDF). A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico. USDA Agriculture Handbook. United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.
Mathison, Blaine A.; Hardy, Martin; Bezdek, Aleš; Schoolmeesters, Paul (2001). "A Worldwide Checklist of the Tribes and Genera of Aegialiinae, Aphodiinae, Termitotroginae, Aulonocneminae, Scarabaeinae, and Coprinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". 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.