Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Dynastinae
Tribus: Pentodontini
Genus: Tomarus
Species (30 + 2†):
T. adoceteus –
T. bidentulus –
T. bituberculatus –
T. burmeisteri –
T. cicatricosus –
T. columbianus –
†T. compositus –
T. cuniculus –
T. discrepans –
T. ebenus –
†T. effetus –
T. fossor –
T. gianucai –
T. gibbosus –
T. gyas –
T. laevicollis –
T. maimon –
T. maternus –
T. nasutus –
T. neglectus –
T. peruvianus –
T. pullus –
T. pumilus –
T. relictus –
T. rosettae –
T. rostratus –
T. rubripes –
T. sallaei –
T. selanderi –
T. similis –
T. subtropicus –
T. villosus
Name
Tomarus Erichson, 1847: 95
- Type species: Scarabaeus ebenus DeGeer, 1774.
Synonymy
- Tomarus LeConte, 1861: 99 [nom. praeocc.; nom. nov.: Toramus Grouvelle, 1916: 26]
- Ligyrus Burmeister, 1847
- Type species: Scarabaeus gibbosus DeGeer, 1774
- Note: some authorities, such as Morón Rios & Grossi, 2015 and Escalona & Joly, 2006 disagree with the synonymy.
References
Primary references
- Erichson, W.F. 1847. Conspectus insectorum coleopterorum quae in Republica Peruana observata sunt. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 13(1–2): 67–185. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 95]
Additional references
- Escalona, H.E.; Joly, L.J. 2006: [The genus Ligyrus Burmeister in Venezuela (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini).] Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, (39): 111–137. [not seen] Reference page.
- López-García, M.M.; Gasca-Álvarez, H.J.; Amat-García, G. 2014: A new species of Tomarus Erichson, 1847 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini), with a key to the species in Colombia. Zootaxa 3869(5): 579–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.5.8 Reference page.
- Ratcliffe, B.C.; Cave, R.D. 2010: The Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the Cayman Islands (West Indies), with descriptions of Tomarus adoceteus, new species (Pentodontini) and Caymania nitidissima, new genus and species (Phileurini). Insecta mundi, (0139): 1–15. PDF
Links
- Schoolmeesters P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on Jun 23, 2017]