Eurysternus

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: Scarabaeinae
Tribus: Oniticellini
Subtribus: Eurysternina
Genus: Eurysternus
Subgenera: Amartinezus

Species (53): E. aeneus – E. angustulus – E. arnaudi – E. atrosericus – E. balachowskyi – E. calligrammus – E. cambeforti – E. caribaeus – E. cavatus – E. cayennensis – E. contractus – E. cyanescens – E. cyclops – E. deplanatus – E. fallaciosus – E. foedus – E. francinae – E. gilli – E. gracilis – E. hamaticollis – E. harlequin – E. hirtellus – E. howdeni – E. hypocrita – E. impressicollis – E. inca – E. inflexus – E. jessopi – E. lanuginosus – E. magnus – E. marmoreus – E. martinsi – E. maya – E. mexicanus – E. nanus – E. navajasi – E. nigrovirens – E. obliteratus – E. olivaceus – E. parallelus – E. plebejus – E. sanbornei – E. squamosus – E. streblus – E. strigilatus – E. sulcifer – E. superbus – E. truncus – E. uniformis – E. vastiorum – E. velutinus – E. ventricosus – E. wittmerorum
Name

Eurysternus Dalman, 1824: Ephem. Entom., 8.

References
Additional references

Génier, F. 2009. Le genre Eurysternus Dalman, 1824 (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Oniticellini), révision taxonomique et clés de détermination illustrées. Series faunistica, (85): 430 pp. [in French] DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1627.9129 Reference page.

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 March 27, 2017]

Eurysternus is a genus of Scarabaeinae or dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. It is normally placed in the Oniticellini, although some authors consider it the single genus in the tribe Eurysternini (e.g.[1]). It is restricted to the Neotropics and includes 53 recognized species.[2][3][4][5]
Copulation of Eurysternus caribaeus

They have a characteristic nesting strategy among dung beetles, with brood ball elaboration but no ball rolling behaviour.[6][7]

The species in the genus are present from México to Argentina, but highest diversity is found the Amazon basin, the Andes and Central America. Species distribution is affected primarily by annual mean temperature and annual precipitation. The species with wide climatic niches would primarily inhabit the rainiest and coldest locations in the continent.[8]
References

Tarasov, Sergei; Génier, François (17 March 2015). "Innovative Bayesian and Parsimony Phylogeny of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) Enhanced by Ontology-Based Partitioning of Morphological Characters". PLOS ONE. 10 (3): e0116671. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1016671T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116671. PMC 4363793. PMID 25781019.
Génier, F. (2009). Le genre Eurysternus Dalman, 1824 (Scar abaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Oniticellini) révision taxonomique et clés de détermination illustrées. Sofia, Bulgaria: Pensoft Press. p. 430.
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Halffter, Gonzalo (1977). "Evolution of Nidification in the Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)". Quaestiones Entomologicae. 13 (3): 231–254. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
Camero - R, E.; Lobo, J. M. (2012). "The distribution of the speci es of Eurysternus Dalman , 1824 ( Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae ) in America : potential distributions and the locations of areas to be surveyed" (PDF). Tropical Conservation Science. 5 (2): 225–244. doi:10.1177/194008291200500210. Retrieved 5 May 2016.