| Euchirinae | |
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| Male Cheirotonus sp. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabeiformia |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Euchirinae Hope, 1840 |
| Diversity | |
| 3 genera, 16 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Euchirini | |
Euchirinae is a subfamily of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. They are sometimes referred to as "long-armed scarabs" due to the elongated forelegs of the males. These long legs often have median and apical spines that are fixed in the male while females have a movable terminal spine.
They are sometimes included in Subfamily Melolonthinae as Tribe Euchirini.
Genera and species
This subfamily contains 3 genera with 16 species:
- Cheirotonus Hope, 1840 (10 species)
- Cheirotonus battareli Pouillaude, 1913
- Cheirotonus formosanus Ohaus, 1913
- Cheirotonus fujiokai Muramoto, 1994
- Cheirotonus gestroi Pouillaude, 1913
- Cheirotonus jambar Kurosawa, 1984
- Cheirotonus jansoni Jordan, 1898
- Cheirotonus macleayi Hope, 1840
- Cheirotonus parryi Gray, 1848
- Cheirotonus peracanus Kriesche, 1919
- Cheirotonus szetshuanus Medvedev, 1960
- Propomacrus Newman, 1837 (4 species)
- Propomacrus bimucronatus Pallas, 1781
- Propomacrus cypriacus Alexis & Makris 2002
- Propomacrus davidi Deyrolle, 1874
- Propomacrus muramotoae Fujioka, 2007
- Euchirus Linnaeus, 1758 (2 species)
- Euchirus dupontianus Burmeister, 1841
- Euchirus longimanus Linnaeus, 1758
One fossil species C. otai has been described from Japan.
References
- "ITIS Standard Report - Error". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- "Euchirinae - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Young, RM (1989). "Euchirinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the World: Distribution and Taxonomy". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 43 (3): 205–236.
- The Scarabs of Lavrnt
- Euchiridae
- Ueda, Kyoichiro (1989). "A Miocene fossil of long-armed scarabaeid beetle from Tottori, Japan" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 9: 105–110. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
External links
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