Hybosorus

Hybosorus Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Hybosorus roei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Hybosoridae
Subfamily:	Hybosorinae
Genus:	Hybosorus MacLeay, 1819

Hybosorus is a genus of scavenger scarab beetles in the family Hybosoridae. There are about eight described species in Hybosorus.[1][2][3]

Hybosorus roei

Species

• Hybosorus crassus Klug, 1855
• Hybosorus curtulus Fairmaire, 1887
• Hybosorus laportei Westwood, 1845
• Hybosorus orientalis Westwood, 1845
• Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845 (= illigeri)
• Hybosorus ruficornis Boheman, 1857

Extinct species

• †Hybosorus lividus Heer 1862 Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation, Germany, Miocene
• †Hybosorus ocampoi Bai and Zhang 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian

References

1. "Hybosorus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Hybosorus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Hybosorus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Allsopp, Peter G.; Branco, Tristão (2007). "Case 3400: Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Insects, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by giving it precedence over Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 64: 90–95. ISSN 0007-5167.
• Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.

External links

• Media related to Hybosorus at Wikimedia Commons