Oxyligyrus Arrow, 1908

López-García, Margarita M., Gasca-Álvarez, Héctor J. & Amat-García, Germán, 2015, The scarab beetle tribe Pentodontini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) of Colombia: taxonomy, natural history, and distribution, Zootaxa 4048 (4), pp. 451-492 : 466

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5699362

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Oxyligyrus Arrow, 1908
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Oxyligyrus Arrow, 1908

Oxyligyrus Arrow, 1908: 341 . Type species: Scarabaeus zoilus Olivier, 1789: 45 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. The combination of a triangular and reflexed clypeus, mandibles without lateral teeth, and pronotum with a deep, longitudinal fovea easily distinguishes Oxyligyrus species from any other genera of Pentodontini .

Distribution. Oxyligyrus currently includes 10 Neotropical species, of which only two occur in Colombia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Dynastidae

Loc

Oxyligyrus Arrow, 1908

López-García, Margarita M., Gasca-Álvarez, Héctor J. & Amat-García, Germán 2015
2015
Loc

Oxyligyrus

Olivier 1789: 45
1789
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