Oryctes
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Dynastinae |
| Tribe: | Oryctini |
| Genus: | Oryctes Hellwig, 1798 |
Oryctes[1] is the most economically important genus of rhinoceros beetles in the subfamily Dynastinae (family: Scarabaeidae), since it includes a notorious insect pest of palms.
Species[]
Currently, 42 species are in the genus,[2] including:
- Burmeister, 1847
- Sternberg, 1910
- Fairmaire, 1901
- Semenov & Medvedev, 1932
- (Olivier, 1789)
- (Fabricius, 1775)
- Dechambre, 1986
- Arrow, 1937
- Sternberg, 1910
- Dechambre, 1996
- Guérin-Méneville, 1844
- Coquerel, 1852
- Fairmaire, 1893
- Endrödi, 1969
- Sternberg, 1910
- Fairmaire, 1897
- Prell, 1914
- Burmeister, 1847
- Dechambre, 1980
- Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
- Oryctes gnu Mohnike, 1874 - Malaysian rhinoceros beetle
- Prell, 1934
- Endrödi, 1973
- Nagai, 2002
- Fairmaire, 1891
- Dechambre, 1982
- Waterhouse, 1876
- Beck, 1942
- (Olivier, 1789) - African rhinoceros beetle
- Oryctes nasicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Scarabaeus nasicornis L.: the European rhinoceros beetle)
- Arrow, 1910
- Minck, 1913
- Beavois, 1807
- Fairmaire, 1901
- Wollaston 1864
- Burmeister, 1847
- Coquerel, 1852
- Oryctes rhinoceros (Linnaeus, 1758) - Asiatic rhinoceros beetle
- Petrovitz, 1958
- de Miré, 1960
- Coquerel, 1852
- Kolbe, 1905
- (Olivier, 1789)
- Gahan, 1900
References[]
- ^ Hellwig JCL (1798) Ankündigungen neuer Bücher. Intelligenzblatt der Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung jahrg. 1798(13): 100-101.
- ^ Biolib.cz genus Oryctes Illiger, 1798
External links[]
Categories:
- Dynastinae
- Scarabaeidae genera