| Melinopterus | |
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| Melinopterus consputus, Greece | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Aphodiinae |
| Tribe: | Aphodiini |
| Genus: | Melinopterus Mulsant, 1842 |
Melinopterus is a genus of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melinopterus.
Species
These 22 species belong to the genus Melinopterus. Some of these were previously members of the genus Aphodius.
- Melinopterus abeillei (Sietti, 1903)
- Melinopterus consputus (Creutzer, 1799)
- Melinopterus femoralis (Say, 1823)
- Melinopterus feryi Rössner, 2018
- Melinopterus gissaricus (Akhmetova & Frolov, 2012)
- Melinopterus guillebeaui (Reitter, 1891)
- Melinopterus imamae (Stebnicka, 1988)
- Melinopterus longipes (Landin, 1949)
- Melinopterus makowskyi (Koshantschikov, 1891)
- Melinopterus maroccanus Rössner, 2018
- Melinopterus prodromus (Brahm, 1790)
- Melinopterus pubescens (Sturm, 1800)
- Melinopterus punctatosulcatus (Sturm, 1805)
- Melinopterus rapax (Faldermann, 1836)
- Melinopterus reyi (Reitter, 1892)
- Melinopterus scuticollis (Semenov, 1898)
- Melinopterus sertavulensis (Pittino, 1988)
- Melinopterus sphacelatus (Panzer, 1798)
- Melinopterus stolzi (Reitter, 1906)
- Melinopterus tingens (Reitter, 1892)
- Melinopterus villarreali (Baraud, 1975)
- Melinopterus wittmeri (Petrovitz, 1975)
References
- "Melinopterus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- "Melinopterus". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Melinopterus Mulsant, 1842". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ Gordon, Robert D. & Skelley, Paul E. (2007). "A monograph of the Aphodiini inhabiting the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiini)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 79: 1–580. ISBN 978-1-887988-23-0.
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