Bolbites

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Bolbites
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Infraorder:
Scarabeiformia
Superfamily:
Scarabaeoidea
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Genus:
Bolbites

Bolbites is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. [1] [2] [3] The genus is generally considered to be monospecific, including only Bolbites onitoides Harold, 1868, a polychromatic species living in open habitats and shrublands from Bolivia and Paraguay to Argentina, southern Brazil and Uruguay. [4] Although it was suggested that B. onitoides might actually represent two distinct subspecies based on dorsal colouration, [5] a 2022 study concluded that the B. onnitoides should continue to be considered a single monotypic species. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Search Results" . Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  2. ↑ "Bolbites - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2014-04-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. 1 2 Cupello, Mario; Ribeiro-Costa, Cibele S.; Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z. (2022). "The evolution of Bolbites onitoides (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Phanaeini): its phylogenetic significance, geographical polychromatism and the subspecies problem" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 973–1034. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab015.
  5. ↑ Martínez, A. (1959). "Catálogo de los Scarabaeidae Argentinos". Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia', Ciencias Zoológicas. 5: 1–126.


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