Aegialiinae Explained

Aegialiinae is a small subfamily of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles).^[1] Historically the group has been treated as a tribe within a broad definition of the subfamily Aphodiinae.

Genera

The following genera are members of the subfamily Aegialiinae.

• Tribe Aegialiini

• • Aegialia (Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical)
  • Caelius (Nearctic, Palaearctic)
  • Micraegialia (the Nearctic)
  • Psammoporus (Palaearctic, Nearctic)
  • Rhysothorax (Palaearctic, Nearctic)
  • Silluvia (Palaearctic, Oriental)
  • † Archeopsammoporus (Palaearctic, Fossil)
  • † Cretaegialia (Fossil)
• Tribe Saprinianini

• • Amerisaprus (Neotropical)
  • Argeremazus (Neotropical)
  • Mimaegialia (Neotropical)
  • Saprus (Australian)

Further reading

• Book: American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea . Arnett . R.H. Jr . Thomas . M. C. . Skelley . P. E. . Frank . J. H. . 2002 . CRC Press . 978-084930954-0 . none.
• Book: Blatchley, W.S. . An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana . 1910 . Nature Pub. . . none.
• Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta) . Bouchard . Patrice . Bousquet . Yves . Davies . Anthony E. . Alonso-Zarazaga . Miguel A. . Lawrence . John F. . Lyal . Chris H. C. . Newton . Alfred F. . Reid . Chris A. M. . Schmitt . Michael . Ślipiński . S. Adam . Smith . Andrew B. T. . 4 . ZooKeys . 2011 . 88 . 1–972 . 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . 1313-2989 . 3088472 . 21594053 . free . none.
• Book: Crotch, G.R. . Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico . 1873 . Naturalists' Agency . 10.5962/bhl.title.38811 . 066507077-2 . free . none.
• Book: Field Guide to Beetles of California . Evans . Arthur V. . Hogue . James N. . 2006 . University of California Press . 978-052024657-7 . none.
• Book: Hardy, A. . A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico: Family Scarabaeidae, Subfamilies Rutelinae and Dynastinae . 1991 . USDA Agriculture Handbook . none.
• Book: Harpootlian, Phillip J. . Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina . 2001 . Clemson University Public Service . none.
• Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification . Klimaszewski . Jan . Watt . J.Charles . Fauna of New Zealand . 1997 . 37 . none.
• Book: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names) . Lawrence . J.F. . Newton Jr . A.F. . 1995 . Pakaluk . James . Slipinski . Stanislaw Adam . Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN . 2 . Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson . 779–1006 . 83-85192-34-4 . none.
• Book: LeConte, J.L. . Classification of the Coleoptera of North America . 1861 . Smithsonian Institution . 3 . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 136 . . 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . 066510055-8 . free . none.
• Book: Leng, Charles W. . Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico . 1920 . John D. Sherman, Jr. . 10.5962/bhl.title.8777 . free . none.
• An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas . Riley . Edward G. . Wolfe . Charles S. . Southwestern Entomologist, Supplement . 2003 . none.
• Book: White, Richard E. . A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . 1998 . First published 1983 . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . registration . . 039591089-7 . none.

External links

• Web site: Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles . Ratcliffe . Brett . Jameson . Mary Liz . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190330151517/http://www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html . 2018-03-29 . 2019-03-30.

Notes and References

1. http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Animalia/Aegialiinae_Subfamily.asp Aegialiinae at Zipcodezoo