Biology:Onthophagini

Short description: Tribe of beetles

Onthophagini
Onthophagus gazella males; note variation in horn size
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Tribe:	Onthophagini Lacordaire, 1856
Genera
34, see text
Synonyms
Alloscelini Janssens, 1946

Onthophagini are a tribe of scarab beetles. Commonly placed in the true dung beetle subfamily (Scarabaeinae), it belongs to a group of subfamilies separated as subfamily Coprinae in some treatments.

Onthophagini often display sexual dimorphism, with the males having larger and more elaborate head and thorax ornaments, but not to the degree seen in the rhinoceros beetles of the scarab subfamily Dynastinae for example.

Genera

• Alloscelus
• Amietina
• Anoctus
• Caccobius Thompson, 1859
• Cambefortius
• Cassolus
• Cleptocaccobius
• Cyobius
• Diastellopalpus
• Digitonthophagus
• Disphysema
• Dorbignyolus
• Euonthophagus Balthasar, 1959
• Eusaproecius
• Heteroclitopus
• Hyalonthophagus
• Krikkenius
• Megaponerophilus
• Milichus
• Mimonthophagus
• Neosaproecius
• Onthophagus Latreille, 1802
• Phalops
• Pinacopodius
• Pinacotarsus
• Proagoderus
• Pseudosaproecius
• Stiptocnemis
• Stiptopodius
• Stiptotarsus
• Strandius
• Sukelus
• Tomogonus
• Walterantus

• 

  Phalops aurifrons

References

Wikidata ☰ Q4045834 entry