Euchirinae

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Euchirinae
Cheirotonus macleayiMale.JPG
Male Cheirotonus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Infraorder:
Scarabeiformia
Superfamily:
Scarabaeoidea
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:
Euchirinae

Hope, 1840
Diversity
3 genera, 16 species
Synonyms

Euchirini

Euchirinae is a subfamily of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.[1][2][3] They are sometimes referred to as "long-armed scarabs" due to the elongated forelegs of the males. These long legs often have median and apical spines that are fixed in the male while females have a movable terminal spine.[4]

They are sometimes included in Subfamily Melolonthinae as Tribe Euchirini.

Genera and species[]

This subfamily contains 3 genera with 16 species:[5][6]

  • Cheirotonus Hope, 1840 (10 species)
    • Pouillaude, 1913
    • Ohaus, 1913
    • Muramoto, 1994
    • Pouillaude, 1913
    • Kurosawa, 1984
    • Jordan, 1898
    • Hope, 1840
    • Gray, 1848
    • Kriesche, 1919
    • Medvedev, 1960
  • Newman, 1837 (4 species)
    • Pallas, 1781
    • Alexis & Makris 2002
    • Deyrolle, 1874
    • Fujioka, 2007
  • Linnaeus, 1758 (2 species)
    • Burmeister, 1841
    • Linnaeus, 1758

One fossil species has been described from Japan.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2011-02-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2014-04-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ Young, RM (1989). "Euchirinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the World: Distribution and Taxonomy". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 43 (3): 205–236.
  5. ^ The Scarabs of Lavrnt
  6. ^ Euchiridae[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ Ueda, Kyoichiro (1989). "A Miocene fossil of long-armed scarabaeid beetle from Tottori, Japan" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 9: 105–110. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2012-07-06.

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