Dynastes hyllus

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Dynastes hyllus
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Specimen from Mexico
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Dynastes
Species:
D. hyllus
Binomial name
Dynastes hyllus
Chevrolat, 1843
Synonyms
  • Dynastes iphiclus Burmeister, 1847
  • Dynastes miyashitai Yamaya, 2004
  • Dynastes moroni Nagai, 2005

Dynastes hyllus is a large scarab beetle species that ranges from Mexico to Guatemala. Its larvae have been found to associate with the logs of Persea americana . [1]

Taxonomy

There were two subspecies recognized, D. hyllus hyllus and D. hyllus moroni, [2] but subsequent genetic analyses clearly indicate that they are unrelated to one another; D. hyllus hyllus is sister to Dynastes grantii , while D. hyllus moroni is sister to Dynastes maya , so moroni is presently considered a separate species. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Dynastes hyllus Chevrolat, 1843". Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles. 2006. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  2. ↑ Ratcliffe, B. C., R. D. Cave, and E. Cano. 2013. The dynastine scarab beetles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 27: 1-666.
  3. ↑ Huang JP, Knowles LL (2015) The species versus subspecies conundrum: Quantitative delimitation from integrating multiple data types within a single Bayesian approach in Hercules beetles. Syst Biol 65(4):685–99


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