DYNASTINI MacLeay, 1819

Rowland, J. Mark & Miller, Kelly B., 2012, Phylogeny and systematics of the giant rhinoceros beetles (Scarabaeidae: Dynastini), Insecta Mundi 2012 (263), pp. 1-15 : 9

Tribe DYNASTINI MacLeay

Description. Endrödi (1985) constitutes the most recent comprehensive taxonomic review of the Dynastinae , in which he provides the following morphological description of the Dynastini relative to the other tribes of the subfamily: “This tribe includes the biggest species of the whole family Melolonthidae . Most species display very strong sexual dimorphism. Horns of males often very long, head and pronotum [horns] in females usually almost absent. Fore legs of males mostly longer than in females. Also elytra in many species different: in male smooth, in female strongly sculptured. Mandibles mostly incised on apex, outer side straight or lobed. Antennae 10-jointed, club in both sexes short. Form of prosternal process highly variable. Propygidium either with or without a stridulatory area. Claw-joint of anterior tarsi strongly thickened only in Dynastes neptunus Quensel and D. satanas Moser ; apex of basal-joint of hind tarsi rarely spiniformly produced.”