Cheirotonus

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Cheirotonus
Cheirotonus macleayiMale.JPG
Cheirotonus macleayi (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:
Euchirinae
Genus:
Cheirotonus

Hope, 1841

Cheirotonus is a genus of long-armed scarabs (subfamily Melolonthinae) with about 10 species with a distribution extending west along the Himalayas to Japan in the east. They live inside tree holes in montane forest and are attracted to lights. Males and females show differences in size and structure of the legs with males having elongated foretibiae. The pronotum is shiny green and the elytra are usually dark with orange patterning.

Eight to ten species, depending on the taxonomic treatment, are recognized:[1]

  • Minet 1981 - Peninsular Malaysia
  • Pouillaude 1913 - northern Vietnam
  • Ohaus 1913 - Taiwan
  • Pouillaude 1913 - Northeast India, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam
    • =corompti Pouillaude 1913
    • =henrici Pouillaude 1913
    • =chiangdaoensis Minet 1987
  • Kurosawa 1984 - North Okinawa
  • (Jordan 1898) - Burma, China, Vietnam
    • = nankinensis Yu, 1936
    • = szetshuanus Medvedev, 1960
  • Hope, 1841 - Bhutan, India, China
  • Gray, 1848 - Burma, India, Laos, Thailand

References[]

  1. ^ Young, Ronald M. (1989). "Euchirinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the World: Distribution and Taxonomy". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 43 (3): 205–236. JSTOR 4008574.
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