Chironidae is a family of beetles belonging to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Chironidae are primitive looking scarab beetles that occur in Africa, Asia (predominantly India) and Madagascar.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
The following genera and species are included in Chironidae:[12]
↑Huchet J.-B. (2000). – Scission du genre Chiron Mac Leay, 1819 et description de deux nouveaux genres de Chironidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 36(1): 3–28.
↑Huchet J.-B. (2002). – Révision du genre Amphiceratodon Huchet 2000 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Chironidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 107(1): 61-78.
↑Huchet J.-B., Lumaret J.-P. (2002). – The larva of Chiron senegalensis Hope & Westwood, 1845 and comments on relationships with other Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera: Chironidae). European Journal of Entomology 99(3): 363-372.
↑Huchet J.-B. (2004). – Révision du genre Theotimius Huchet, 2000 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea: Chironidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 40(1): 3-21.
↑Smith, Andrew B. T. "Book Review: Insecta Coleoptera Chironidae (Huchet, J.B. 2003)" (2003) Papers in Entomology, 119.
↑Huchet J.-B. (2019a). – Quatre nouvelles espèces du genre Chiron MacLeay, 1819 de la région afrotropicale (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Chironidae). Coléoptères 25(11): 157-178.
↑Huchet J.-B. (2019b). – Un nouveau Chiron MacLeay, 1819 d’Afrique subsaharienne (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Chironidae). Coléoptères 25(13): 185-192.
↑Huchet J.-B., (2020). – Chiron elegans, nouvelle espèce d’Afrique subsaharienne (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Chironidae). Faunitaxys 8(9): 1-3.
↑Huchet J.-B., (2025). – New Taxonomic Data on African Chironidae: Description of Chiron vignei n. sp. from Tanzania (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Zootaxa 5693(2): 261–271.
