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Synoptic Revision Of The United States Scarab Beetles Of The Subfamily Dynastinae, No. 2: Tribe Oryctini (Part), Lawrence Saylor Jan 1946

Synoptic Revision Of The United States Scarab Beetles Of The Subfamily Dynastinae, No. 2: Tribe Oryctini (Part), Lawrence Saylor

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This paper continues the series on United States dynastine scarab beetles and includes the three genera differentiated in the following key:

1. Apical margin of posterior tibia evenly truncate, never with angulations or teeth (lateral view); real apex of clypeus beyond (i.e., apical of) the apparent carinate apex; front male tibia frequently edentate. = Cheiroplatys Hope

2. Mandibles always large, always well exposed, always armed externally with teeth or else square in outline (cessus); apical margin of posterior tibia usually with 1 or 2 sharp angulations or 1 to 3 or 4 teeth. = Strategus Hope

3. Mandibles usually hidden …