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Family: Scarabaeidae (dung beetles, rhinoceros beetles, chafers,
monkey beetles)
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> Insecta
(insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola >
Holometabola > Coleoptera
(beetles)
> Polyphaga > Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
The family Scarabaeidae is large and diverse and includes dung beetles,
miniature dung beetles, monkey beetles, flower chafers, fruit chafers, woolly
chafers, brown chafers so each subfamily will be listed separately.
Some subfamilies, genera and species from southern Africa
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Subfamily Aphodiinae
(miniature dung beetles) |
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Subfamily Cetoniinae
(fruit and flower chafers) |
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Subfamily: Coprinae (dung
beetles - part) |
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Subfamily: Dynastinae
(rhinoceros beetles) |
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Subfamily: Melolonthinae
(leaf chafers [part], white grubs [part], woolly chafers) |
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Subfamily: Rutelinae (leaf chafers
[part], white grubs [part], monkey beetles)
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Subfamily: Scarabaeinae
(scarabs, dung beetles - part) |
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