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Liatongus
Liatongus militaris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Tribe:	Oniticellini
Genus:	Liatongus Reitter, 1893

Liatongus is a genus of dung beetles in the subfamily Scarabaeinae of the scarab beetle family. At least part of the upper surfaces are without hairs; the head and pronotal disc are generally sculptured; and the genae are rounded, with little or no indentation between the clypeus and the genae. Length ranges from 7.4 to 10.9 mm. Colours vary: they may be uniform brown or dull purple, or have red, white or yellow patterns on the elytra.

Distribution

Found in three regions: Afrotropical, Oriental to eastern Palearctic, and western Nearctic.

Taxonomy

There are 38-46 species; 17 are from Africa.

Gallery

• Liatongus militaris
• Liatongus femoratus
• Liatongus gagatinus
• Liatongus incurvicornis
• Liatongus mergacerus
• Liatongus rhadamistus
• Liatongus venator
• Liatongus vertagus

Species

These 43 species belong to the genus Liatongus:

• Liatongus affinis (Arrow, 1908)
• Liatongus amitinus (Boucomont, 1921)
• Liatongus ancorifer Kral & Rejsek, 1999
• Liatongus appositicornis Kral & Rejsek, 1999
• Liatongus arrowi (Boucomont, 1921)
• Liatongus aterrimus (Boucomont, 1921)
• Liatongus bucerus (Fairmaire, 1891)
• Liatongus californicus (Horn, 1882)
• Liatongus clypeocornis Scheuern, 1988
• Liatongus davidi (Boucomont, 1919)
• Liatongus denticornis (Fairmaire, 1887)
• Liatongus endroedii Balthasar, 1956
• Liatongus femoratus (Illiger, 1800)
• Liatongus ferreirae Balthasar, 1964
• Liatongus fulvostriatus D'Orbigny, 1916
• Liatongus gagatinus (Hope, 1831)
• Liatongus hastatus Kral & Rejsek, 1999
• Liatongus imitator Balthasar, 1938
• Liatongus incurvicornis (Fairmaire, 1887)
• Liatongus indicus (Arrow, 1908)
• Liatongus interruptus (Quedenfeldt, 1884)
• Liatongus martialis (Harold, 1879)
• Liatongus medius (Fairmaire, 1889)
• Liatongus mergacerus (Hope, 1831)
• Liatongus militaris (Castelnau, 1840)
• Liatongus minutus (Motschulsky, 1860)
• Liatongus phanaeoides (Westwood, 1839)
• Liatongus pugionatus (Boheman, 1858)
• Liatongus raffrayi (Lansberge, 1886)
• Liatongus rhinoceros Arrow, 1931
• Liatongus rhinocerulus (Bates, 1889)
• Liatongus schoutedeni (Boucomont, 1920)
• Liatongus sjostedti (Felsche, 1904)
• Liatongus spathulatus (Roth, 1851)
• Liatongus taurus (Boucomont, 1920)
• Liatongus testudo (Lansberge, 1886)
• Liatongus triacanthus (Boucomont, 1920)
• Liatongus tridentatus (Boucomont, 1919)
• Liatongus tuberculicollis (Felsche, 1909)
• Liatongus upembanus Janssens, 1953
• Liatongus urus (Kolbe, 1914)
• Liatongus venator (Fabricius, 1801)
• Liatongus vertagus (Fabricius, 1798)

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

1. ^ Davis, Adrian L.V.; Frolov, Andrey V.; Scholtz, Clarke H. (2008). The African dung beetle genera (1st ed.). Pretoria: Protea Book House. p. 237. ISBN 9781869192440.
2. Philips, T. Keith (11 April 2016). "Phylogeny of the Oniticellini and Onthophagini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from morphological evidence". ZooKeys (579): 9–57. doi:10.3897/zookeys.579.6183. PMC 4829968. PMID 27110200.
3. "Liatongus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
4. "Liatongus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
5. "Browse Liatongus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
6. "Liatongus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
7. "Liatongus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-06.

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