Ruteloryctes

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: Ruteloryctes
Species (2): R. bis – R. morio

In synonymy (2): R. hottentotta – R. tristis
Name

Ruteloryctes Arrow, 1908: 335

Type species: Ruteloryctes tristis Arrow, 1908 [= Scarabaeus morio Fabricius, 1798] by monotypy.

References
Primary references

Arrow, G.J. 1908. A contribution to the classification of the coleopterous family Dynastidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [56(2)]: 321–358. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1908.tb02151.x BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 335]

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 19, 2017]