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Dynastes moroni

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Species of beetle

Dynastes moroni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Dynastes
Species: D. moroni
Binomial name
Dynastes moroni
Nagai, 2005
Synonyms
  • Dynastes hyllus moroni Nagai, 2005

Dynastes moroni is a large scarab beetle endemic to the Sierra de los Tuxtlas region in Mexico.

Taxonomy

This beetle species was originally described as a subspecies, Dynastes hyllus moroni, but subsequent genetic analyses clearly indicate that it is unrelated to Dynastes hyllus; D. hyllus is sister to Dynastes grantii, while D. moroni is sister to Dynastes maya.

References

  1. ^ Ratcliffe, B. C., R. D. Cave, and E. Cano. 2013. The dynastine scarab beetles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 27: 1-666.
  2. Huang JP, Knowles LL (2015) The species versus subspecies conundrum: Quantitative delimitation from integrating multiple data types within a single Bayesian approach in Hercules beetles. Syst Biol 65(4):685–99
Taxon identifiers
Dynastes moroni


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