Pericoptus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Dynastinae
Tribus: Pentodontini
Genus: Pericoptus
Species: P. corumbaensis – P. frontalis – P. nitidulus – P. punctatus – P. stupidus – P. truncatus
Name

Pericoptus Burmeister, 1847: 111

Type species: Scarabaeus truncatus Fabricius, 1775 by Monotypy.

References
Primary references

Burmeister, H.C.C. 1847. Handbuch der Entomologie. Fünfter Band. Besondere Entomologie. Fortsetzung. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Xylophila et Pectinicornia. Berlin: Reimer, viii + 584 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8135 BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 111]

Additional references

Broun, T. 1880: Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, Wellington. Internet Archive BHL BUGZ
Broun, T. 1904: Descriptions of new genera and species of New Zealand Coleoptera. Annals and magazine of natural history (7), 14: 41–59, 105-127. Internet Archive BHL BUGZ
Endrödi, S. 1974: Monographie der Dynastinae 4. Tribus: Pentodontini von Australien und Neu-Zeeland (Coleoptera). Folia entomologica hungarica, 27 (2): 17–70.
Given, B.B. 1955: A preliminary note on the genus Pericoptus (Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). New Zealand entomologist 1(5): 15–18. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1955.9722744 Reference page.
Hope, F.W. 1837: The coleopterist's manual, containing the lamellicorn insects of Linnaeus and Fabricius. Vol. 1 . London: H.G. Bohn. Internet Archive BHL

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 Jun 17, 2017]

Pericoptus is a genus of large scarab beetles found in New Zealand. As many as five species are recognized.[1]
Species

Pericoptus frontalis
Pericoptus nitidulus
Pericoptus punctatus
Pericoptus stupidus
Pericoptus truncatus[2]

References

Parkinson, Brian and Don Horne (Photographer). (2007). A Photographic Guide to Insects of New Zealand. New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd.

http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pericoptus

http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Bio23Tuat01-t1-body-d1.html
Brown, J. G. (1967). Notes and records of New Zealand Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera). New Zealand Entomologist 3:42–50.
Crumpton, W. J. (1974). Eugregarines from the larva of the sand scarab (Pericoptus truncatus Fabricius; Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 4:319–326.
Dale, P. S. (1956). The sand scarab, Pericoptus. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Canterbury. New Zealand. 130.
Dale, P. S. (1963). Ecology, Life History and Redescription of Pericoptus truncatus (Fabricius). Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. (Zool.) 3 (3): 17–32.