Melinopterus
{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
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| image = Melinopterus consputus - inat 108689452.jpg
| image_caption = Melinopterus consputus, Greece
| taxon = Melinopterus
| authority = Mulsant, 1842
| display_parents = 2
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Melinopterus is a genus of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melinopterus.
Species
These 22 species belong to the genus Melinopterus. Some of these were previously members of the genus Aphodius.
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- Melinopterus abeillei (Sietti, 1903)
- Melinopterus consputus (Creutzer, 1799)
- Melinopterus femoralis (Say, 1823)
- Melinopterus feryi Rössner, 2018
- Melinopterus gissaricus (Akhmetova & Frolov, 2012)
- Melinopterus guillebeaui (Reitter, 1891)
- Melinopterus imamae (Stebnicka, 1988)
- Melinopterus longipes (Landin, 1949)
- Melinopterus makowskyi (Koshantschikov, 1891)
- Melinopterus maroccanus Rössner, 2018
- Melinopterus prodromus (Brahm, 1790)
- Melinopterus pubescens (Sturm, 1800)
- Melinopterus punctatosulcatus (Sturm, 1805)
- Melinopterus rapax (Faldermann, 1836)
- Melinopterus reyi (Reitter, 1892)
- Melinopterus scuticollis (Semenov, 1898)
- Melinopterus sertavulensis (Pittino, 1988)
- Melinopterus sphacelatus (Panzer, 1798)
- Melinopterus stolzi (Reitter, 1906)
- Melinopterus tingens (Reitter, 1892)
- Melinopterus villarreali (Baraud, 1975)
- Melinopterus wittmeri (Petrovitz, 1975)
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References
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{{ITIS | title=Melinopterus | id=926341 | access-date=2021-12-26
}}
{{GBIF | title=Melinopterus | id=1069158 | access-date=2021-12-26
}}
{{Cite web| title=Melinopterus Mulsant, 1842
| url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/5NQX
| website=Catalogue of Life
| access-date=2021-12-26
}}
{{Cite journal
| title = A monograph of the Aphodiini inhabiting the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiini)
| date = 2007
| last1 = Gordon | first1 = Robert D.
| last2 = Skelley | first2 = Paul E. |name-list-style=amp
| journal = Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute
| volume=79 |pages=1–580
| isbn = 978-1-887988-23-0
}}
}}
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Category:Taxa named by Étienne Mulsant
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