Tesarius

Tesarius
Tesarius caelatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Tribe:	Psammodiini
Genus:	Tesarius Rakovic, 1981

Tesarius is a genus of aphodiine dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are about five described species in Tesarius. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Species

These five species belong to the genus Tesarius:

• Tesarius caelatus (Leconte, 1857)
• Tesarius doyeni (Cartwright, 1977)
• Tesarius mcclayi (Cartwright, 1955)
• Tesarius oregonensis (Cartwright, 1955)
• Tesarius sulcipennis (Lea, 1904)

References

1. "Tesarius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Tesarius". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Tesarius genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

• Mathison, Blaine A.; Hardy, Martin; Bezdek, Aleš; Schoolmeesters, Paul (2001). "A Worldwide Checklist of the Tribes and Genera of Aegialiinae, Aphodiinae, Termitotroginae, Aulonocneminae, Scarabaeinae, and Coprinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae)" . Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-30914-2.

External links

• Media related to Tesarius at Wikimedia Commons