Pentodon is a genus of Palaearctic beetles belonging to the subfamily Dynastinae, it is the type genus of tribe Pentodontini.[1]

Pentodon
Pentodon bidens punctatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Tribe: Pentodontini
Genus: Pentodon
Hope, 1837

Species

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Pentodon algerinum

BioLib includes:

  1. Pentodon algerinus (Füssli, 1778)
  2. Pentodon bengalensis Arrow, 1910
  3. Pentodon bidens (Pallas, 1771) - type species (as Scarabaeus punctatus Villers, 1789
    = P. bidens punctatus)
  4. Pentodon brachypterus Gusakov, 2004
  5. Pentodon caminarius (Faldermann, 1835)
  6. Pentodon foveipennis Jakovlev, 1903
  7. Pentodon idiota (Herbst, 1789)
  8. Pentodon insularis Zhang, 1991
  9. Pentodon intermedius Voirin, 1997
  10. Pentodon kuwaitensis Endrödi & Al-Houty, 1985
  11. Pentodon minutus Reitter, 1887
  12. Pentodon quadridens (Gebler, 1844)
  13. Pentodon reitteri Jakovlev, 1904
  14. Pentodon snegovayae Shokhin, 2015
  15. Pentodon topali Endrödi, 1974
  16. Pentodon variolopunctatus Fairmaire, 1879

References

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  1. ^ "Fauna Europaea : Taxon Details". Faunaeur.org. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
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