Dynastes moroni

Dynastes moroni is a large scarab beetle endemic to the Sierra de los Tuxtlas region in Mexico.[1]

Dynastes moroni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Genus:
Dynastes
Species:
D. moroni
Binomial name
Dynastes moroni
Nagai, 2005
Synonyms
  • Dynastes hyllus moroni Nagai, 2005

Taxonomy

This beetle species was originally described as a subspecies, Dynastes hyllus moroni,[1] but subsequent genetic analyses clearly indicate that it is unrelated to Dynastes hyllus; D. hyllus is sister to Dynastes grantii, while D. moroni is sister to Dynastes maya.[2]

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References
  1. Ratcliffe, B. C., R. D. Cave, and E. Cano. 2013. The dynastine scarab beetles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 27: 1-666.
  2. Huang JP, Knowles LL (2015) The species versus subspecies conundrum: Quantitative delimitation from integrating multiple data types within a single Bayesian approach in Hercules beetles. Syst Biol 65(4):685–99


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