Bolbites

Bolbites
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Bolbites

Bolbites is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. The genus is generally considered to be monospecific, including only Bolbites onitoides Harold, 1868, a polychromatic species living in open habitats and shrublands from Bolivia and Paraguay to Argentina, southern Brazil and Uruguay. Although it was suggested that B. onitoides might actually represent two distinct subspecies based on dorsal colouration, a 2022 study concluded that the B. onnitoides should continue to be considered a single monotypic species.

References

  1. ↑ "Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Search Results". Retrieved 2011-02-04.
  2. ↑ "Bolbites - Nomen.at - animals and plants".
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2014-04-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. 1 2 Cupello, Mario; Ribeiro-Costa, Cibele S.; Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z. (2022). "The evolution of Bolbites onitoides (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Phanaeini): its phylogenetic significance, geographical polychromatism and the subspecies problem". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 194 (3): 973–1034. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab015.
  5. ↑ Martínez, A. (1959). "Catálogo de los Scarabaeidae Argentinos". Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia', Ciencias Zoológicas. 5: 1–126.