Database Details : World Scarabaeidae Database
| Database Qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 99% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World Scarabaeidae Database UPDATED! |
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| Short name: | Scarabs |
| Version: | Jan 2017 |
| Release date: | 2017-01-28 |
| Authors/editors: | Schoolmeesters P. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Coleoptera - superfamily Scarabaeoidea |
| English name of the group: | Scarab beetles |
| Number of living species | 38,642 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 2,426 |
| Number of extinct species: | 271 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 15,527 |
| Number of common names: | 696 |
| Total number of names: | 57,562 |
| Abstract: | The World Scarabaeidae Database is currently only accessible through this checklist. It is included on the Annual Checklist by kind permission of Paul Schoolmeesters (schoolp@skynet.be). The Scarabids are a large family of beetles, believed to include about 35,000 species. |
| Organization: | Individual custodian |
| Website: |
http://www.datascaraebaeoidea.net/Index.html |
| Bibliographic citation: | Schoolmeesters P. (2017). Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jan 2017). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |