Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Crescent-Dune Aegialian Scarab Beetle, Cresent Dune Scarab Beetle
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
()
- Heymons, 1901
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
()
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
()
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
()
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
()
- Order:
Coleoptera
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Suborder:
Polyphaga
()
- Emery, 1886
- a genus of Blister Beetles (Meloidae)
- Infraorder:
Scarabaeiformia
()
- Superfamily:
Scarabaeoidea
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Family:
Scarabaeidae
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Subfamily:
Aegialiinae
()
- Genus:
Aegialia
()
- Latreille, 1807
- Specific name:
crescenta
- Gordon & Cartwright, 1977
- Scientific name: - Aegialia crescenta Gordon & Cartwright, 1977
- Specific name:
crescenta
- Gordon & Cartwright, 1977
- Genus:
Aegialia
(
- Subfamily:
Aegialiinae
(
- Family:
Scarabaeidae
(
- Superfamily:
Scarabaeoidea
(
- Infraorder:
Scarabaeiformia
(
- Suborder:
Polyphaga
(
- Order:
Coleoptera
(
- Infraclass:
Pterygota
(
- Subclass:
Dicondylia
(
- Epiclass:
Hexapoda
(
- Superclass:
Panhexapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Atelocerata
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Gordon R.D. & Cartwright O.L. Four New Species
of Aegialia (s.str.) from California and Nevada Sand
Dunes Journal
of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington D.C. 67:42-48,
1977.
Last scrutiny: Dec-2009
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Aegialia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. concinna (Ciervo Aegialian Scarab Beetle) · A. crescenta (Crescent-Dune Aegialian Scarab Beetle) · A. hardyi (Hardy's Aegialian Scarab Beetle) · A. knighti (Aegialian Scarab Beetle) · A. magnifica (Large Aegialian Scarab Beetle)
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Further Reading
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- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.
- Gordon R.D. & Cartwright O.L. Four New Species of Aegialia (s.str.) from California and Nevada Sand Dunes Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington D.C. 67:42-48, 1977.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database. Release date: November 7, 2009
- Schoolmeesters, Paul (from Scarabaeidae).
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Aegialia crescenta. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1127961
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Scr-04-.01-.01-.00-.002-.000-.012-.-
- IUCN ID: 188947
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: IICOL64020
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 179439
Footnotes
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Aegialia crescenta. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
