Dynastes moroni explained

Dynastes moroni is a large scarab beetle endemic to the Sierra de los Tuxtlas region in Mexico.^[1]

Taxonomy

This beetle species was originally described as a subspecies, Dynastes hyllus moroni,^[1] but subsequent genetic analyses clearly indicate that it is unrelated to Dynastes hyllus; D. hyllus is sister to Dynastes grantii, while D. moroni is sister to Dynastes maya.^[2]

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. 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