Ogyges (beetle)
| Ogyges | |
|---|---|
| Ogyges championi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Passalidae |
| Genus: | Ogyges Kaup, 1871 |
| Synonyms | |
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Ogyges is a genus of beetles in the family Passalidae.[1][2] The genus is distributed in Meso-America, from Mexico to Nicaragua.[2]
Ogyges are flightless and saproxylophagous.[2]
Species
There are 25 recognized species:[1]
- Ogyges adamsi Schuster & Reyes-Castillo, 1990
- Ogyges aluxi Schuster, Cano & Boucher, 2005
- Ogyges cakchiqueli Schuster & Reyes-Castillo, 1990
- Ogyges cavei Cano, 2014
- Ogyges championi (Bates, 1886)
- Ogyges coxchicopi Schuster, Cano & Boucher, 2005
- Ogyges crassulus (Casey, 1897)
- Ogyges furcillatus Schuster & Reyes-Castillo, 1990
- Ogyges handali Cano, 2014
- Ogyges hondurensis Schuster & Reyes-Castillo, 1990
- Ogyges kekchii Schuster & Reyes-Castillo, 1990
- Ogyges laevissimus (Kaup, 1868)
- Ogyges laurae Cano, 2014
- Ogyges llama Cano, 2014
- Ogyges marilucasae Reyes-Castillo & Castillo, 1986
- Ogyges menchuae Cano, 2014
- Ogyges monzoni Schuster, Cano & Boucher, 2005
- Ogyges mutenroshii Cano, 2014
- Ogyges nahuali Schuster, Cano & Boucher, 2005
- Ogyges politus (Hincks, 1953)
- Ogyges quichensis Schuster & Reyes-Castillo, 1990
- Ogyges ratcliffei Cano, 2014
- Ogyges sandinoi Cano, 2014
- Ogyges toriyamai Cano, 2014
- Ogyges tzutuhili Schuster & Reyes-Castillo, 1990
References
- ^ a b "Ogyges Kaup, 1871". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
- ^ a b c Cano, Enio B.; Schuster, Jack C.; Morrone, Juan (2018). "Phylogenetics of Ogyges Kaup and the biogeography of Nuclear Central America (Coleoptera, Passalidae)". ZooKeys. 737: 81–111. Bibcode:2018ZooK..737...81C. doi:10.3897/zookeys.737.20741. PMC 5904369. PMID 29674874.