Ligyrus is a genus of beetles in the tribe Pentodontini, from the Americas. It was originally erected by Hermann Burmeister in 1847, then merged with the genus Tomarus, then restored by M.M. López-García and C. Deloya in 2022.[1]
| Ligyrus | |
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| Ligyrus gibbosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Dynastinae |
| Tribe: | Pentodontini |
| Genus: | Ligyrus Burmeister, 1847 |
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 Image at iNaturalist |
Species edit
The following are included in BioLib.cz:[2]
- subgenus Ligyrodes Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus peruvianus Endrödi, 1970
- Ligyrus relictus (Say, 1825)
- Ligyrus sallaei Bates, 1888
- subgenus Ligyrus Burmeister, 1847
- Ligyrus adoceteus (Ratcliffe & Cave, 2010)
- Ligyrus allonasutus López-García & Deloya, 2022
- Ligyrus bidentulus Fairmaire, 1892
- Ligyrus burmeisteri Steinheil, 1872
- Ligyrus cicatricosus Prell, 1937
- Ligyrus cuniculus (Fabricius, 1801)
- Ligyrus fossor Latreille, 1833
- Ligyrus gibbosus (DeGeer, 1774) - the carrot beetle
- Ligyrus nasutus (Burmeister, 1847)
- Ligyrus neglectus (LeConte, 1847)
- Ligyrus pullus Prell, 1937
- Ligyrus rubripes Boheman, 1858
- Ligyrus villosus (Burmeister, 1847)
References edit
- ^ López-García, Margarita M.; Deloya, Cuauhtémoc (11 November 2022). "Cladistic analysis reveals polyphyly of Tomarus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae): new classification and taxonomic revision". Zootaxa. 5211 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5211.1.1. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ BioLib.cz: genus Ligyrus Burmeister, 1847 (retrieved 21 March 2024)
External links edit
Media related to Ligyrus at Wikimedia Commons
