Name - Silvaphilus Roets & Oberlander 2010
Name Details
Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:4471753 [metadata]
Reported Taxonomic Ranks
Genus
Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies
Animalia (Kingdom) Arthropoda (Phylum) Insecta (Class) Coleoptera (Order) Polyphaga (Suborder) Scarabaeoidea (Superfamily) Scarabaeidae (Family) |
References
Original Description Reference
- Silvaphilus: a new relict forest-endemic Canthonini dung beetle genus from the Western Cape Province of South Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). African Entomology, 18(2), September 2010: 369-373. [Zoological Record Volume 147]
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Recent Publications
- Silvaphilus: a new relict forest-endemic Canthonini dung beetle genus from the Western Cape Province of South Africa (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).
- Multigene phylogenetic analysis redefines dung beetles relationships and classification (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae).
- Defining new dung beetle tribes to resolve discrepancies between phylogeny and tribal classification in the subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae).
- An unexpected new flightless dung beetle species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Endroedyolini) from the Cederberg Mountains, South Africa.
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