Valgus

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: Cetoniinae
Tribus: Valgini
Subtribus: Valgina
Genus: Valgus
Species (20): V. albomaculatus – V. californicus – V. canaliculatus – V. cristatus – V. distinctus – V. fuscatus – V. hemipterus – V. heydeni – V. koreanus – †V. oeningensis – V. okajimai – V. parvicollis – V. parvulus – V. quadrimaculatus – V. savioi – V. seticollis – V. smithii – V. sumatranus – V. thibetanus – V. tonkinensis
Name

Valgus Scriba, 1790: 66

Type species: Scarabaeus hemipterus Linnaeus, 1758.

Synonymy

Acanthurus Kirby, 1827: 155
Type species: Scarabaeus hemipterus Linnaeus, 1758
Homovalgus H.J. Kolbe, 1897: 214
Type species: Trichius seticollis Palisot de Beauvois, 1805

References
Primary references

Scriba L.G. 1790. Verzeichniss der Insekten der Darmstädter Gegend. Journal für die Liebhaber der Entomologie 1: 40–73. [original description: p. 66]

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 May 27, 2017]

Valgus is a genus of beetles. Most described species are found in Asia, with some reaching into northern Africa and Europe, and three species native to the New World. One species is found in South Africa.
Species

Valgus albomaculatus Kraatz, 1896 — Borneo
Valgus arabicus Nonfried, 1895 — Arabia
Valgus californicus Horn, 1870 — Mexico, California
Valgus canaliculatus (Olivier, 1789) — United States
Valgus cristatus Gestro, 1891 — Borneo
Valgus distinctus Nonfried, 1895 — Borneo
Valgus fuscatus Kraatz, 1896 — Borneo
Valgus hemipterus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Europe, Caucasus, Northern Africa, introduced to North America: Ontario, Michigan, Ohio
Valgus koreanus Sawada, 1944 — Korea
Valgus okajimai Kobayashi, 1994 — Taiwan
Valgus parvicollis Fairmaire, 1891 — China
Valgus parvulus Burmeister & Schaum, 1840 — Thailand
Valgus quadrimaculatus Kraatz, 1883 — Malaysia
Valgus savioi Pic, 1928 — China
Valgus seticollis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) — USA
Valgus smithii Macleay, 1838 — South Africa
Valgus sumatranus Gestro, 1891 — Sumatra
Valgus thibetanus Nonfried, 1891 — Tibet
Valgus tonkinensis Arrow, 1944 — North Vietnam

References

World Scarabaeidae Database, Oct 2007