Melinopterus
Genus of beetles
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Melinopterus is a genus of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melinopterus.[1][2][3][4]
| Melinopterus | |
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| Melinopterus consputus, Greece | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Aphodiinae |
| Tribe: | Aphodiini |
| Genus: | Melinopterus Mulsant, 1842 |
Species
These 22 species belong to the genus Melinopterus. Some of these were previously members of the genus Aphodius.[3][4]
- 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)
