Phoberus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Trogidae |
| Subfamily: | Troginae |
| Genus: | Phoberus MacLeay, 1819 |
| Synonyms | |
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Madagatrox Pittino, 2010 | |
Phoberus is a genus of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae. It was initially a subgenus of Trox before taxonomists reorganized it into its own genus. The genus is monophyletic, with all species evolved from a single common ancestor. Most beetle species in the genus live in Africa.[1][2]
It contains the following species:[3][4]
- Phoberus aculeatus (Harold, 1872)
- Phoberus arcuatus (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus braacki (Scholtz, 1980)
- Phoberus brincki (Haaf, 1958)
- Phoberus bulirschi (Huchet, 2020)
- Phoberus caffer (Harold, 1872)
- Phoberus capensis (Scholtz, 1979)
- Phoberus consimilis (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus cyrtus (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus disjunctus (Strümpher, 2016)
- Phoberus elmariae (van der Merwe & Scholtz, 2005)
- Phoberus fascicularis (Wiedemann, 1821)
- Phoberus fumarius (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus gunki (Scholtz, 1980)
- Phoberus herminae (Strümpher, 2016)
- Phoberus horridus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Phoberus levis (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus lilianae (Scholtz, 1980)
- Phoberus luridus (Fabricius, 1781)
- Phoberus miliarius (Gmelin, 1790)
- Phoberus montanus (Kolbe, 1891)
- Phoberus mozalae (Strümpher & Scholtz, 2009)
- Phoberus nama (Kolbe, 1908)
- Phoberus nanniscus (Péringuey, 1901)
- Phoberus nasutus (Harold, 1872)
- Phoberus natalensis (Haaf, 1954)
- Phoberus necopinus (Scholtz, 1986)
- Phoberus ngomensis (van der Merwe & Scholtz, 2005)
- Phoberus nigrociliatus (Kolbe, 1904)
- Phoberus ntlenyanae (Strümpher, 2019)
- Phoberus nyansanus (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus nyassicus (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus nyikanus (Strümpher, 2017)
- Phoberus penicillatus (Fahraeus, 1857)
- Phoberus perrieri (Fairmaire, 1899)
- Phoberus planicollis (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus puncticollis (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus pusillus (Péringuey, 1908)
- Phoberus quadricostatus (Scholtz, 1980)
- Phoberus ranotsaraensis (Pittino, 2010)
- Phoberus rhyparoides (Harold, 1872)
- Phoberus rudebecki (Haaf, 1958)
- Phoberus squamiger (Roth, 1851)
- Phoberus sternbergi (van der Merwe & Scholtz, 2005)
- Phoberus strigosus (Haaf, 1953)
- Phoberus sulcatus (Thunberg, 1787)
- Phoberus talpa (Fahraeus, 1857)
- Phoberus youngai (Strümpher & Scholtz, 2011)
References[edit]
- ^ Macleay, W. S. (1819). Horae entomologicae: or, Essays on the annulose animals (PDF). Vol. 1. S. Bagster.
- ^ van der Merwe, Yolandi (August 2008). "Systematics of Trogidae (Coleoptera): new South African species, and a molecular phylogeny of the family" (PDF). University of Pretoria. p. 65.
- ^ "Phoberus". BioLib.
- ^ "Phoberus MacLeay, 1819". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 2 January 2022.