Ceratophyus Explained

Ceratophyus is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 13 described species in Ceratophyus.

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Ceratophyus:

• Ceratophyus alloini Prunier, Tauzin & Rosset, 2016
• Ceratophyus dauricus (Jekel, 1865)
• Ceratophyus gopherinus Cartwright, 1966 (gopher beetle)
• Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi (Fairmaire, 1856)
• Ceratophyus kabaki Nikolajev, 2007
• Ceratophyus maghrebinicus Hillert & Kral, 2013
• Ceratophyus martinezi Lauffer, 1909
• Ceratophyus mesasiaticus Medvedev & Nikolajev, 1974
• Ceratophyus polyceros (Pallas, 1771)
• Ceratophyus rossii (Jekel, 1865)
• Ceratophyus schaffrathi Hillert & Kral, 2013
• Ceratophyus sinicus Zunino, 1973
• Ceratophyus sulcicornis (Fairmaire, 1887)
• †Ceratophyus yatagaii

Further reading

• Web site: 2019-07-02. Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles. Ratcliffe. Brett. Jameson. Mary Liz. https://web.archive.org/web/20190330151517/http://www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html. 2019-03-30. dead.
• Book: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. 2006. Lobl . I.. Smetana . A.. Apollo Books. 978-90-04-30914-2.