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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Rhinoceros Beetles (Dynastinae) » Oryctini » Xyloryctes

Genus Xyloryctes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Rhinoceros Beetle - Xyloryctes jamaicensis - female Big horned scarab - Xyloryctes jamaicensis - male Xyloryctes jamaicensis - Rhinoceros Beetle - Xyloryctes jamaicensis - male Xyloryctes jamaicensis - Rhinoceros Beetle - Xyloryctes jamaicensis - male black beetle - Xyloryctes jamaicensis black beetle - Xyloryctes jamaicensis Which Black Beetle ? - Xyloryctes jamaicensis Xyloryctes jamaicensis - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles)
Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
Subfamily Dynastinae (Rhinoceros Beetles)
Tribe Oryctini
Genus Xyloryctes
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Hope, 1837. Genus name is Xylo- from Greek, xylon, wood, plus Greek oriktes, a digger. (1)
Numbers
Arnett, page 420, lists just one species, jamaicensis, in the genus for North America. (2) Nearctica.com also lists just this one species for North America.
Range
A New World genus with one species in North America and others in neotropics.
Print References
Harpootlian, p. 112 (3)
Internet References
Xyloryctes thestalus, lobicollis--illustration of species from Central America
Works Cited
1.The Century Dictionary: an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
3.Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of South Carolina
By Phillip J. Harpootlian
Contributed by Cotinis on 12 April, 2004 - 10:27am
Last updated 25 March, 2006 - 8:55pm

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