Melinopterus
Melinopterus consputus, Greece
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Aphodiinae
Tribe: Aphodiini
Genus: Melinopterus
Mulsant, 1842

Melinopterus is a genus of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melinopterus.[1][2][3][4]

Melinopterus prodromus, Switzerland

Species

These 22 species belong to the genus Melinopterus. Some of these were previously members of the genus Aphodius.[3][4]

  • Melinopterus abeillei (Sietti, 1903)
  • Melinopterus consputus (Creutzer, 1799)
  • Melinopterus femoralis (Say, 1823)
  • Melinopterus feryi Rössner, 2018
  • Melinopterus gissaricus (Akhmetova & Frolov, 2012)
  • Melinopterus guillebeaui (Reitter, 1891)
  • Melinopterus imamae (Stebnicka, 1988)
  • Melinopterus longipes (Landin, 1949)
  • Melinopterus makowskyi (Koshantschikov, 1891)
  • Melinopterus maroccanus Rössner, 2018
  • Melinopterus prodromus (Brahm, 1790)
  • Melinopterus pubescens (Sturm, 1800)
  • Melinopterus punctatosulcatus (Sturm, 1805)
  • Melinopterus rapax (Faldermann, 1836)
  • Melinopterus reyi (Reitter, 1892)
  • Melinopterus scuticollis (Semenov, 1898)
  • Melinopterus sertavulensis (Pittino, 1988)
  • Melinopterus sphacelatus (Panzer, 1798)
  • Melinopterus stolzi (Reitter, 1906)
  • Melinopterus tingens (Reitter, 1892)
  • Melinopterus villarreali (Baraud, 1975)
  • Melinopterus wittmeri (Petrovitz, 1975)

References

  1. ↑ "Melinopterus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  2. ↑ "Melinopterus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  3. 1 2 "Melinopterus Mulsant, 1842". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
  4. 1 2 Gordon, Robert D. & Skelley, Paul E. (2007). "A monograph of the Aphodiini inhabiting the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiini)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 79: 1–580. ISBN 978-1-887988-23-0.


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