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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia:Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Aphodiinae
Genus: Melinopterus
Species (21): M. abeillei – M. consentaneus – M. consputus – M. dellacasai – M. edithae – M. femoralis – M. gissaricus – M. guillebeaui – M. imamae – M. longipes – M. meuseli – M. prodromus – M. pubescens – M. punctatosulcatus – M. reyi – M. sertavulensis – M. sphacelatus – M. stolzi – M. tingens – M. villarreali – M. wittmeri
Name

Melinopterus Mulsant, 1842: 282

Type species:

References
Primary references

Mulsant, E. 1842. Histoire naturelle des coléoptères de France. Lamellicornes. Paris: Maison Libraire, Lyon: Imprimerie de Dumoulin, Ronet et Sibuet, viii + 626 pp., 3 pls. Reference page. [original description: p. 282]

Links

Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on April 16, 2017]

Melinopterus is a genus of scarab beetles in the family Scarabaeidae. There are more than 20 described species in Melinopterus.[1][2][3][4]
Melinopterus prodromus, Switzerland
Species

These 22 species belong to the genus Melinopterus. Some of these were previously members of the genus Aphodius.[3][4]

Melinopterus abeillei (Sietti, 1903)
Melinopterus consputus (Creutzer, 1799)
Melinopterus femoralis (Say, 1823)
Melinopterus feryi Rössner, 2018
Melinopterus gissaricus (Akhmetova & Frolov, 2012)
Melinopterus guillebeaui (Reitter, 1891)
Melinopterus imamae (Stebnicka, 1988)
Melinopterus longipes (Landin, 1949)
Melinopterus makowskyi (Koshantschikov, 1891)
Melinopterus maroccanus Rössner, 2018
Melinopterus prodromus (Brahm, 1790)
Melinopterus pubescens (Sturm, 1800)
Melinopterus punctatosulcatus (Sturm, 1805)
Melinopterus rapax (Faldermann, 1836)
Melinopterus reyi (Reitter, 1892)
Melinopterus scuticollis (Semenov, 1898)
Melinopterus sertavulensis (Pittino, 1988)
Melinopterus sphacelatus (Panzer, 1798)
Melinopterus stolzi (Reitter, 1906)
Melinopterus tingens (Reitter, 1892)
Melinopterus villarreali (Baraud, 1975)
Melinopterus wittmeri (Petrovitz, 1975)

References

"Melinopterus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
"Melinopterus". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
"Melinopterus Mulsant, 1842". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
Gordon, Robert D.; Skelley, Paul E. (2007). "A Monograph of the Aphodiini Inhabiting the United States and Canada (Coleoptera:Scarabaeidae:Aphodiini)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 2007. ISBN 978-1-887988-23-0.

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