Pentodon

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: Pentodontini
Subtribus: Pentodontina
Genus: Pentodon
Species (16 + 2†): P. algerinus – †P. bellerophon – P. bengalense – P. bidens – P. caminarius – P. foveipennis – P. idiota – P. insularis – P. intermedius – P. kuwaitense – P. minutus – P. nasutus – †P. proserpinae – P. quadridens – P. reitteri – P. snegovaae – P. topali – P. variolopunctatus
Name

Pentodon Hope, 1837: 92

Type species: Scarabaeus punctatus Villers, 1789

References
Primary references

Hope, F.W. 1837. The coleopterist’s manual, containing the Lamellicorn insects of Linneus and Fabricius. Henry G. Bohn, London, pp. i–xiii + 15–121 + [1], pls. 1–3. Reference page. [original description: p. 92]

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 17, 2017]

Vernacular names
русский: Кукурузный навозник

Pentodon is a genus of beetles belonging to the subfamily Dynastinae, species of which include:[1]

Pentodon algerinus (Fuessly 1788)
Pentodon bidens (Pallas 1771)
Pentodon idiota (Herbst 1789)
Pentodon quadridens (Gebler 1844)
Pentodon variolopunctatus (Fairmaire 1879)

References

"Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details". Faunaeur.org. Retrieved 2014-01-18.