Euchirinae is a subfamily of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.[1][2][3] 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.[4]
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| Subfamily: | Euchirinae Hope, 1840
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| 3 genera, 16 species | |
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They are sometimes included in Subfamily Melolonthinae as Tribe Euchirini.
Genera and species edit
This subfamily contains 3 genera with 16 species:[5][6]
- 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.[7]
References edit
- ^ "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[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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.
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