Biology:Aegialiinae

Short description: Subfamily of beetles

Aegialiinae
Aegialia, Washington
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Aegialiinae Laporte, 1840
Tribes
Aegialiini Castelnau, 1840 Saprinianini Nikolajev, 2011

Aegialiinae is a small subfamily of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles). Historically the group has been treated as a tribe within a broad definition of the subfamily Aphodiinae.

Genera

The following genera are members of the subfamily Aegialiinae.

• Aegialia Latreille, 1807 (Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical)
• Amerisaprus Stebnicka & Skelley, 2003 (Neotropical)
• Argeremazus Stebnicka & Dellacasa, 2003 (Neotropical)
• Caelius Lewis, 1895 (Nearctic, Palaearctic)
• Micraegialia Brown, 1931 (the Nearctic)
• Mimaegialia Nikolajev, 2007 (Neotropical)
• Psammoporus Thomson, 1859 (Palaearctic, Nearctic)
• Rhysothorax Bedel, 1911 (Palaearctic, Nearctic)
• Saprus Blackburn, 1904 (Australian)
• Silluvia Landin, 1949 (Palaearctic, Oriental)
• † Archeopsammoporus Minkina, 2020 (Palaearctic, Fossil)
• † Cretaegialia Nikolajev, 1993 (Fossil)

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E. et al., eds (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-084930954-0. 
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18111#page/5/mode/1up. 
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A. et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989. PMID 21594053. 
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38811. ISBN 066507077-2. 
• Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN 978-052024657-7. 
• Hardy, A. (1991). A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico: Family Scarabaeidae, Subfamilies Rutelinae and Dynastinae. USDA Agriculture Handbook. http://entomology.si.edu/coleoptera/ColeopteraCatalog/Scarabaeidae_Rutelinae&Dynastinae_529-34b.pdf. 
• Harpootlian, Phillip J. (2001). Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina. Clemson University Public Service. 
• Klimaszewski, Jan; Watt, J.Charles (1997). "Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification". Fauna of New Zealand 37. https://biotaxa.org/fnz/article/view/1797/. 
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr, A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam. eds. Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN 83-85192-34-4. 
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 066510055-8. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732. 
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr.. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.8777. 
• Riley, Edward G.; Wolfe, Charles S. (2003). "An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas". Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement. http://texasento.net/Texas_Scarabs.pdf. 
• White, Richard E. (1998). A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 039591089-7. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894. 

External links

• Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". http://www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html. 

External links

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