Oryctes

Oryctes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Dynastinae
Tribe:	Oryctini
Genus:	Oryctes; Hellwig, 1798

Oryctes^[1] is the most economically important genus of rhinoceros beetles in the subfamily Dynastinae (family: Scarabaeidae), since it includes a notorious insect pest of palms.

Species

Currently, 42 species are in the genus,^[2] including:

Oryctes agamemnon Burmeister, 1847
Oryctes amberiensis Sternberg, 1910
Oryctes anguliceps Fairmaire, 1901
Oryctes ata Semenov & Medvedev, 1932
Oryctes augias (Olivier, 1789)
Oryctes boas (Fabricius, 1775)
Oryctes borbonicus Dechambre, 1986
Oryctes capucinus Arrow, 1937
Oryctes centaurus Sternberg, 1910
Oryctes cherlonneixi Dechambre, 1996
Oryctes chevrolatii Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Oryctes colonicus Coquerel, 1852
Oryctes comoriensis Fairmaire, 1893
Oryctes congonis Endrödi, 1969
Oryctes curvicornis Sternberg, 1910
Oryctes dollei Fairmaire, 1897
Oryctes elegans Prell, 1914
Oryctes erebus Burmeister, 1847
Oryctes forceps Dechambre, 1980
Oryctes gigas Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
Oryctes gnu Mohnike, 1874 - Malaysian rhinoceros beetle
Oryctes gracilis Prell, 1934
Oryctes heros Endrödi, 1973
Oryctes hisamatsui Nagai, 2002
Oryctes latecavatus Fairmaire, 1891
Oryctes mayottensis Dechambre, 1982
Oryctes minor Waterhouse, 1876
Oryctes monardi Beck, 1942
Oryctes monoceros (Olivier, 1789) - African rhinoceros beetle
Oryctes nasicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) - type species (as Scarabaeus nasicornis L.: the European rhinoceros beetle)
Oryctes nudicauda Arrow, 1910
Oryctes ohausi Minck, 1913
Oryctes owariensis Beavois, 1807
Oryctes politus Fairmaire, 1901
Oryctes proxilus Wollaston 1864
Oryctes pyrrhus Burmeister, 1847
Oryctes ranavalo Coquerel, 1852
Oryctes rhinoceros (Linnaeus, 1758) - Asiatic rhinoceros beetle
Oryctes richteri Petrovitz, 1958
Oryctes sahariensis de Miré, 1960
Oryctes simiar Coquerel, 1852
Oryctes sjoestedti Kolbe, 1905
Oryctes tarandus (Olivier, 1789)
Oryctes vicinus Gahan, 1900

References

^ Hellwig JCL (1798) Ankündigungen neuer Bücher. Intelligenzblatt der Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung jahrg. 1798(13): 100-101.
^ Biolib.cz genus Oryctes Illiger, 1798

External Links

Media related to Oryctes at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Oryctes at Wikispecies

[1] Hellwig JCL (1798) Ankündigungen neuer Bücher. Intelligenzblatt der Allgemeinen Literatur-Zeitung jahrg. 1798(13): 100-101.

[2] Biolib.cz genus Oryctes Illiger, 1798

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