Species of beetle
Ligyrus gibbosus
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Coleoptera
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Family:
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Scarabaeidae
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Genus:
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Ligyrus
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Species:
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L. gibbosus
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Binomial name
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Ligyrus gibbosus
(De Geer, 1774)
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Synonyms[1]
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- Bothynus morio LeConte, 1847
- Ligyrus arizonensis Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus bicorniculatus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus brevipes Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus breviusculus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus californicus Casey, 1909
- Ligyrus curtipennis Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus effetus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus farctus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus lacustris Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus laetulus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus laevicauda Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus laticauda Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus laticollis Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus longulus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus lucublandus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus parallelus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus puncticauda Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus remotus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus rubidus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus scitulus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus spissipes Casey, 1909
- Ligyrus texanus Casey, 1915
- Ligyrus virginicus Casey, 1915
- Podalgus variolosus Burmeister, 1847
- Scarabaeus juvencus Fabricius, 1775
- Tomarus gibbosus (De Geer, 1774)
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Ligyrus gibbosus, the carrot beetle, is a species of rhinoceros beetle in the family Scarabaeidae.[1][2][3] Adults are 13–17 mm (0.5–0.7 in) long, dark reddish-brown to black, and larvae are white with a dark head.[4][5] It feeds on roots, grasses, and decaying vegetation in the soil, and is a pest of sunflowers and other crops.[6]
Systematics
L. gibbosus was formerly placed under the genus Tomarus until a 2022 revision by López-García, M.M. and C. Deloya.[7]