Ligyrus gibbosus

Ligyrus gibbosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Ligyrus
Species:	L. gibbosus
Binomial name
	Ligyrus gibbosus; (De Geer, 1774)
Synonyms
	Bothynus morio LeConte, 1847 ; Ligyrus arizonensis Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus bicorniculatus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus brevipes Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus breviusculus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus californicus Casey, 1909 ; Ligyrus curtipennis Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus effetus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus farctus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus lacustris Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus laetulus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus laevicauda Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus laticauda Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus laticollis Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus longulus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus lucublandus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus parallelus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus puncticauda Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus remotus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus rubidus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus scitulus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus spissipes Casey, 1909 ; Ligyrus texanus Casey, 1915 ; Ligyrus virginicus Casey, 1915 ; Podalgus variolosus Burmeister, 1847 ; Scarabaeus juvencus Fabricius, 1775 ; Tomarus gibbosus (De Geer, 1774) ;

Ligyrus gibbosus, the carrot beetle, is a species of rhinoceros beetle in the family Scarabaeidae.^[1]^[2]^[3] Adults are 13–17 mm (0.5–0.7 in) long, dark reddish-brown to black, and larvae are white with a dark head.^[4]^[5] It feeds on roots, grasses, and decaying vegetation in the soil, and is a pest of sunflowers and other crops.^[6]

Systematics

L. gibbosus was formerly placed under the genus Tomarus until a 2022 revision by López-García, M.M. and C. Deloya.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "Tomarus gibbosus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Tomarus gibbosus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Ligyrus gibbosus species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ Peairs, Frank B. (20 September 2018). "Carrot Beetle". Bugwoodwiki. University of Georgia. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
^ "Managing Pests in Gardens: Floriculture: Invertebrates: Carrot beetle". University of California Integrated Pest Management. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
^ Bottrell, D. C.; Brigham, R. D.; Jordan, L. B. (1 February 1973). "Carrot Beetle: Pest Status and Bionomics on Cultivated Sunflower". Journal of Economic Entomology. 66 (1): 86–90. doi:10.1093/jee/66.1.86.
^ López-García, Margarita M.; Deloya, Cuauhtémoc (11 November 2022). "Cladistic analysis reveals polyphyly of Tomarus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae): new classification and taxonomic revision". Zootaxa. 5211 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5211.1.1. Retrieved 21 September 2023.

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