Euchirinae

Euchirinae is a subfamily of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.^[1][2][3] They are sometimes referred to as "long-armed scarabs" due to the elongated forelegs of the males. These long legs often have median and apical spines that are fixed in the male while females have a movable terminal spine.^[4]

Euchirinae
Male Cheirotonus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabeiformia
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Euchirinae Hope, 1840
Diversity
3 genera, 16 species
Synonyms
Euchirini

They are sometimes included in Subfamily Melolonthinae as Tribe Euchirini.

Genera and species

This subfamily contains 3 genera with 16 species:^[5][6]

• Cheirotonus Hope, 1840 (10 species)
  • Cheirotonus battareli Pouillaude, 1913
  • Cheirotonus formosanus Ohaus, 1913
  • Cheirotonus fujiokai Muramoto, 1994
  • Cheirotonus gestroi Pouillaude, 1913
  • Cheirotonus jambar Kurosawa, 1984
  • Cheirotonus jansoni Jordan, 1898
  • Cheirotonus macleayi Hope, 1840
  • Cheirotonus parryi Gray, 1848
  • Cheirotonus peracanus Kriesche, 1919
  • Cheirotonus szetshuanus Medvedev, 1960
• Propomacrus Newman, 1837 (4 species)
  • Propomacrus bimucronatus Pallas, 1781
  • Propomacrus cypriacus Alexis & Makris 2002
  • Propomacrus davidi Deyrolle, 1874
  • Propomacrus muramotoae Fujioka, 2007
• Euchirus Linnaeus, 1758 (2 species)
  • Euchirus dupontianus Burmeister, 1841
  • Euchirus longimanus Linnaeus, 1758

One fossil species C. otai has been described from Japan.^[7]

References

1. "ITIS Standard Report - Error". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
2. "Euchirinae - 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. Young, RM (1989). "Euchirinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the World: Distribution and Taxonomy". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 43 (3): 205–236.
5. The Scarabs of Lavrnt
6. Euchiridae^{[permanent dead link]}
7. Ueda, Kyoichiro (1989). "A Miocene fossil of long-armed scarabaeid beetle from Tottori, Japan" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 9: 105–110. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2012-07-06.

External links

• www.goliathus.cz