Megaceras Hope 1837
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Type species: Scarabaeus choriaeus Olivier 1789
Species of Megaceras are characterized by tridentate protibiae, frons with a single horn in the males or a single tubercle in the females, prosternal process present, smooth elytra, and mandibles distinctly bidentate and exposed. Little is known of the life history of these beetles. Adults are active at night and the larvae probably live in rotten wood or in soil feeding on organic matter ( Ratcliffe 2003). The genus contains 19 species ( Endrödi 1985; Dechambre 1981, 1998b,c; Ratcliffe 2007) with distribution in Central
America and South America, where 6 species are known from Brazil; four of them occur in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Megaceras Hope 1837
| Alvarez, Héctor Jaime Gasca, da, Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos, Fonseca & Ratcliffe, Brett C. 2008 |
Megaceras
| Hope, F. W. 1837: 82 |