Scarabaeini

{{Short description|Tribe of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Scarabaeus sacer Uzbekistan.jpg

| image_caption = Scarabaeus sacer (type species)

| taxon = Scarabaeini

| authority = Latreille, 1802

| display_parents = 2

| synonyms = * Gymnopleurini Lacordaire, 1856

  • Sisyphini Mulsant, 1842
  • Actinophorini Ádám, 2003
  • Gymnopleurides Lacordaire, 1856
  • Pachysomides Ferreira, 1953
  • Scarabaeïdes Latreille, 1802
  • Sisyphaires Mulsant, 1842

}}

The ScarabaeiniLatreille PA (1802) Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Tome 3. F. Dufart, Paris. are a tribe of old-world dung beetle genera, erected by Pierre André Latreille.

Genera

File:Pachylomera femoralis 000215-1.jpg

BioLib[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id7898/ Biolib.cz]: tribus Scarabaeini Latreille, 1802 (retrieved 23 August 2021) lists:

  1. Allogymnopleurus Janssens, 1940
  2. Garreta Janssens, 1940
  3. Gymnopleurus Illiger, 1803
  4. Mnematium MacLeay, 1821
  5. Neosisyphus G. Müller, 1942
  6. Nesosisyphus Vinson, 1946
  7. Pachylomera Kirby, 1828
  8. Paragymnopleurus Shipp, 1897
  9. Scarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758
  10. Sceliages Westwood, 1837
  11. Sisyphus Latreille, 1807

Note: a number of taxa including Kheper and Mnematidium are now considered subgenera of Scarabaeus.

References

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