Pentodontini

Pentodontini is a tribe of rhinoceros beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are over 100 genera in the tribe Pentodontini.

Pentodontini
Pentodon algerinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Dynastinae
Tribe:	Pentodontini Mulsant, 1842

Selected Genera

• Anoplognatho Rivers, 1888
• Aphonus LeConte, 1856
• Bothynus Hope, 1837
• Coscinocephalus Prell, 1936
• Euetheola Bates, 1888
• Gillaspytes Howden, 1980
• Orizabus Fairmaire, 1878
• Oxygrylius Casey, 1915
• Pentodon Hope, 1837
• Pericoptus Burmeister, 1847
• Thronistes Burmeister, 1847
• Tomarus Erichson, 1847 (carrot beetles)

References

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
• Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.