Eupatorus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Dynastinae
Tribus: Dynastini
Genus: Eupatorus
Species (7): E. birmanicus – E. endoi – E. gracilicornis – E. hardwickei – E. koletta – E. siamensis – E. sukkiti
Name

Eupatorus Burmeister, 1847: 268

Type species: Dynastes hardwickii Hope, 1831.

Synonymy

Alcidosoma Laporte, 1867: 113
Type species: Alcidosoma siamense Laporte, 1867

References
Primary references

Burmeister, H.C.C. 1847. Handbuch der Entomologie. Fünfter Band. Besondere Entomologie. Fortsetzung. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Xylophila et Pectinicornia. Berlin: Reimer, viii + 584 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8135 BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 268]

Additional references

Nagai, S. 1999: A new species of the genus Eupatorus from south Vietnam (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). Japanese journal of systematic entomology, 5(1): 153–156. ISSN: 1341-1160
Wang, C-b.; Lei, Q-l. 2009: Taxonomic study on Chinese species of the genus Eupatorus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). Acta zootaxonomica sinica, 34: 346–352.

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 11, 2017]

Eupatorus is a genus of rhinoceros beetles (subfamily Dynastinae of the family Scarabaeidae).
Species

The genus contains the following species,[1] typically found in Indo-China:

Eupatorus birmanicus Arrow, 1908
Eupatorus endoi Nagai, 1999
Eupatorus gracilicornis Arrow, 1908
Eupatorus hardwickei (Hope, 1831)
Eupatorus koletta Voirin, 1978
Eupatorus siamensis (Castelnau, 1867)
Eupatorus sukkiti Miyashita & Arnaud, 1996

References

http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/browse/tree/id/2516005