Name - Silvaphilus Roets & Oberlander 2010

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urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:4471753 [metadata]

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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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