Trox
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Trox is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of beetle
Beetle
Coleoptera is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek , koleos, "sheath"; and , pteron, "wing", thus "sheathed wing". Coleoptera contains more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms...

s of the Family Trogidae.

Its species occur almost worldwide.

Species

Trox acanthinus Harold, 1872 (Mexico)
Trox aculeatus Harold, 1872 (South Africa)
Trox aequalis
Trox aequalis
Trox aequalis is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Say, 1831 (Canada to Mexico)
Trox affinis
Trox affinis
Trox affinis is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Robinson, 1940 (USA)
Trox alatus Macleay, 1888 (Australia)
Trox alius Scholtz, 1986 (Western Australia)
Trox amictus Haaf, 1954 (Australia)
Trox antiquus Wickham, 1909 (fossil:oligocene
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present . As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the period are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the period are slightly...

, Florissant
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a United States National Monument in Teller County, Colorado, that is noted for its fossils. It is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of prehistoric life...

, USA)
Trox aphanocephalus Scholtz, 1986 (Australia)
Trox arcuatus Haaf, 1953 (South Africa)
Trox atrox
Trox atrox
Trox atrox is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

LeConte
John Lawrence LeConte
John Lawrence LeConte was the most important American entomologist of the 19th century, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime, including some 5,000 species of beetles...

, 1854
(USA)
Trox augustae Blackburn
Thomas Blackburn (entomologist)
Thomas Blackburn was an English-born Australian entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.Born near Liverpool, England, Blackburn became interested in entomology in his youth...

, 1892
(Australia)
Trox boucomonti Paulian, 1933 (China, Vietnam)
Trox braacki Scholtz, 1980 (South Africa)
Trox brahminus Pittino, 1985 (India to Vietnam)
Trox brincki Haaf, 1958 (Lesotho)
Trox cadaverinus Illiger, 1801 (Europe to China)
Trox caffer Harold, 1872 (South Africa)
Trox cambeforti Pittino, 1985 (China)
Trox cambodjanus Pittino, 1985 (Cambodia, Laos)
Trox candidus Harold, 1872 (Australia)
Trox capensis Scholtz, 1979 (South Africa)
Trox capillaris
Trox capillaris
Trox capillaris is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Say, 1823 (Canada to southern USA)
Trox carinicollis Scholtz, 1986 (Western Australia)
Trox ciliatus Blanchard, 1846 (Argentina, Bolivia)
Trox clathratus (Reiche
Louis Jérôme Reiche
Louis Jérôme Reiche , was a French merchant, manufacturer and entomologist.Reiche travelled widely in Europe making a large insect collection principally of beetles...

, 1861)
(Corsica
Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

)
Trox conjunctus Petrovitz, 1975 (China)
Trox consimilis Haaf, 1953 (Southern Africa)
Trox contractus
Trox contractus
Trox contractus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Robinson, 1940 (Texas)
Trox coracinus Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.- Education :Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen...

, 1788
(unknown distribution)
Trox cotodognanensis Compte, 1986 (Spain)
Trox cribrum Gené
Giuseppe Gené
Carlo Giuseppe Géné was an Italian naturalist and author.Géné was born at Turbigo in Lombardy and studied at the University of Pavia. He published a number of papers on natural history, particularly entomology...

, 1836
(France, Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

)
Trox cricetulus Ádám, 1994 (Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

, Spain)
Trox curvipes Harold, 1872 (Australia)
Trox cyrtus Haaf, 1953 (South Africa)
Trox demarzi Haaf, 1958 (Australia)
Trox dhaulagiri Paulus, 1972 (Nepal)
Trox dilaticollis Macleay, 1888 (Australia)
Trox dohrni Harold, 1871 (Western Australia)
Trox doiinthanonensis Masumoto, 1996 (Thailand)
Trox elderi Blackburn, 1892 (South Australia)
Trox elongatus Haaf, 1954 (Northern Australia)
Trox erinaceus LeConte, 1854 (South Carolina)
Trox euclensis Blackburn, 1892 (Australia)
Trox eversmanni Krynicky, 1832 (Central Europe to Siberia)
Trox fabricii Reiche, 1853 (Spain, Sicily to Northern Africa)
Trox fascicularis Wiedemann, 1821 (Southern Africa)
Trox fascifer LeConte, 1854 (California)
Trox floridanus Howden & Vaurie, 1957 (Florida)
Trox formosanus Nomura, 1973 (Taiwan)
Trox foveicollis
Trox foveicollis
Trox foveicollis is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Harold, 1857 (USA)
Trox frontera
Trox frontera
Trox frontera is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Vaurie, 1955 (Texas)
Trox gansuensis Ren, 2003 (China)
Trox gemmulatus
Trox gemmulatus
Trox gemmulatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Horn
George Henry Horn
George Henry Horn was a U.S. entomologist who specialized in the study of beetles.Born in Philadelphia, Horn attended the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a degree in medicine in 1861...

, 1874
(California)
Trox gigas Harold, 1872 (Australia)
Trox gonoderus Fairmaire, 1901 (Madagascar)
Trox granuliceps Haaf, 1954 (Australia)
Trox granulipennis Fairmaire, 1852 (Northern Africa to Spain and Middle East)
Trox gunki Scholtz, 1980 (South Africa)
Trox hamatus
Trox hamatus
Trox hamatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Robinson, 1940 (USA)
Trox hispidus (Pontoppidan
Erik Pontoppidan
Erik Pontoppidan was a Danish author, bishop, historian and antiquary, born in Aarhus August 24, 1698; died in Copenhagen December 20, 1764. He was educated in Fredericia , after which he was a private tutor in Norway, and then studied in Holland, and in London and Oxford, England...

, 1763)
(Europe)
Trox horridus Fabricius, 1775 (South Africa)
Trox howdenorum Scholtz, 1986 (Western Australia)
Trox howelli Howden & Vaurie, 1957 (Florida, Texas)
Trox ineptus Balthasar, 1931 (Transbaikal
Transbaikal
Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia , or Dauria is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" Lake Baikal in Russia. The alternative name, Dauria, is derived from the ethnonym of the Daur people. It stretches for almost 1000 km from north to south from the Patomskoye Plateau and North...

)
Trox insularis Chevrolat
Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat
Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat was a French entomologist, born 29 March 1799 at Paris and died16 December 1884 in the same city.In government service in Paris, this amateur entomologist studied, mainly, Coleoptera and birds...

, 1864
(Southern USA, Cuba)
Trox kerleyi Masumoto, 1996 (Thailand)
Trox kiuchii Masumoto, 1996 (Thailand)
Trox klapperichi Pittino, 1983 (Turkey to Saudi Arabia, Middle East)
Trox kyotensis Ochi & Kawahara, 2000 (Japan)
Trox lama Pittino, 1985 (Tibet)
Trox laticollis LeConte, 1854 (New York)
Trox leonardii Pittino, 1983 (Spain to North Africa, Israel)
Trox levis Haaf, 1953 (South Africa)
Trox litoralis Pittino, 1991 (South Europe: Italy to Greece)
Trox luridus Fabricius, 1781 (Southern Africa)
Trox lutosus Marsham
Thomas Marsham
Thomas Marsham was an English entomologist, specializing on beetles.- Biography :He married a Miss Symes of Ufford, Northants, and had two daughters...

, 1802
(Great Britain)
Trox mandli Balthasar, 1931 (Transbaikal)
Trox mariae Scholtz, 1986 (Western Australia)
Trox mariettae Scholtz, 1986 (North Australia)
Trox marshalli Haaf, 1957 (Australia)
Trox martini (Reitter
Edmund Reitter
Edmund Reitter was a Austrian entomologist , writer and a collector.Edmund Reitter was above all well-known as an expert on the beetles of the Palaearctic....

, 1892)
(North Africa)
Trox matsudai Ochi & Hori, 1999 (Japan)
Trox maurus Herbst, 1790 (unknown distribution)
Trox montanus Kolbe, 1891 (Africa)
Trox monteithi Scholtz, 1986 (Australia)
Trox morticinii Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University...

, 1781
(Central Asia)
Trox mutsuensis Nomura, 1937 (Japan)
Trox nama Kolbe, 1908 (Southern Africa)
Trox nanniscus Peringuey, 1901 (South Africa)
Trox nasutus Harold, 1872 (South Africa)
Trox natalensis Haaf, 1954 (South Africa)
Trox necopinus Scholtz, 1986 (Zambia)
Trox niger Rossi, 1792
Trox nigrociliatus Kolbe, 1904 (Ethiopia)
Trox nigroscobinus Scholtz, 1986 (Western Australia)
Trox niponensis Lewis, 1895 (Japan)
Trox nodulosus Harold, 1872 (Sardinia, Corsica)
Trox nohirai Nakane, 1954 (Japan)
Trox novaecaledoniae Balthasar, 1966 (New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

)
Trox opacotuberculatus Motschulsky, 1860 (Japan, Taiwan)

Trox oustaleti Scudder
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Samuel Hubbard Scudder was an American entomologist and palaeontologist.Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Scudder may be most widely known for his essay on the importance of first-hand, careful observation in the natural sciences...

, 1879
(fossil: eocene; Nine-mile Creek, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

)
Trox ovalis Haaf, 1957 (North Australia)
Trox pampeanus Burmeister, 1876 (Argentina)
Trox parvicollis Scholtz, 1986 (North Australia)
Trox pastillarius Blanchard, 1846 (South America)
Trox pellosomus Scholtz, 1986 (Australia)
Trox penicillatus Fahraeus, 1857 (South Africa)
Trox perhispidus Blackburn, 1904 (Australia)
Trox perlatus Geoffroy
Étienne Louis Geoffroy
Étienne Louis Geoffroy was a French entomologist and pharmacist. He was born in Paris and died in Soissons. He followed the binomial nomenclature of Carl von Linné and devoted himself mainly to beetles....

, 1762
(Great Britain to Spain and Italy)
Trox perrieri Fairmaire, 1899 (Madagascar)
Trox perrisii Fairmaire, 1868 (Europe, North Africa)
Trox placosalinus Ren, 2003 (China)
Trox planicollis Haaf, 1953 (Southern Africa)
Trox plicatus
Trox plicatus
Trox plicatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Robinson, 1940 (Southern USA)
Trox poringensis Ochi, Kon & Kawahara, 2005 (Borneo, Java)
Trox puncticollis Haaf, 1953 (Saudi Arabia)
Trox pusillus Peringuey, 1908 (Africa)
Trox quadridens Blackburn, 1892 (Australia)
Trox quadrimaculatus Ballion, 1870 (Turkestan
Turkestan
Turkestan, spelled also as Turkistan, literally means "Land of the Turks".The term Turkestan is of Persian origin and has never been in use to denote a single nation. It was first used by Persian geographers to describe the place of Turkish peoples...

)
Trox quadrinodosus Haaf, 1954 (Australia)
Trox regalis Haaf, 1954 (Australia)
Trox rhyparoides
Trox rhyparoides
Trox rhyparoides is a beetle of the Family Trogidae. It is endemic to Africa....

(Harold, 1872) (Africa)
Trox rimulosus Haaf, 1957 (India)
Trox robinsoni
Trox robinsoni
Trox robinsoni is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Vaurie, 1955 (Canada to Texas)
Trox rotundulus Haaf, 1957 (Australia)
Trox rudebecki
Trox rudebecki
Trox rudebecki is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Haaf, 1958 (South Africa)
Trox sabulosus (Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

, 1758)
(Great Britain to Siberia)
Trox salebrosus Macleay, 1872 (Australia)
Trox scaber
Trox scaber
Trox scaber is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

(Linnaeus, 1767) (Holarctic, North Africa, South America, Australia)
Trox semicostatus Macleay, 1872 (Australia)
Trox setifer Waterhouse
Frederick George Waterhouse
Frederick George Waterhouse was an English naturalist, zoologist and entomologist who made significant contributions to the study of the natural history of Australia....

, 1875
(Japan)
Trox setosipennis Blackburn, 1904 (Australia)
Trox sonorae
Trox sonorae
Trox sonorae is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

LeConte, 1854 (Canada to New Mexico)
Trox sordidatus Balthasar, 1936 (Southeastern Europe)
Trox sordidus
Trox sordidus
Trox sordidus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

LeConte, 1854 (Canada to Texas)
Trox spinulosus
Trox spinulosus
Trox spinulosus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Robinson, 1940 (USA)
Trox squamiger Roth, 1851 (Africa, Arabia)
Trox squamosus Macleay, 1872 (Australia, New Guinea)
Trox stellatus Harold, 1872 (Western Australia)
Trox strandi Balthasar, 1936 (Algeria)
Trox striatus
Trox striatus
Trox striatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Melsheimer
Frederick Ernst Melsheimer
Frederick Ernst Melsheimer, M.D. was an American entomologist noted for his work on Coleoptera. He was President of the American Entomological Society in 1853. Frederick Ernest Melsheimer's most important work was Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of the United States...

, 1846
(USA)
Trox strigosus Haaf, 1953 (South Africa)
Trox strzeleckensis Blackburn, 1895 (Australia)
Trox sugayai Masumoto & Kiuchi, 1995 (Japan)
Trox sulcatus
Trox sulcatus
Trox sulcatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg
Carl Peter Thunberg aka Carl Pehr Thunberg aka Carl Per Thunberg was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus"....

, 1787
(Southern Africa)
Trox taiwanus Masumoto, Ochi & Li, 2005 (Taiwan)
Trox talpa Fahraeus, 1857 (South Africa)
Trox tasmanicus Blackburn, 1904 (Tasmania)
Trox tatei Blackburn, 1892 (Australia)
Trox terrestris
Trox terrestris
Trox terrestris is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Say, 1825 (USA)
Trox tibialis Masumoto, Ochi & Li, 2005 (Taiwan)
Trox torpidus Harold, 1872 (Central America)
Trox transversus Reiche, 1856 (Greece, Syria, Turkey)
Trox trilobus Haaf, 1954 (Australia, New Guinea)
Trox tuberculatus
Trox tuberculatus
Trox tuberculatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

(De Geer
Charles De Geer
Baron Charles de Geer was a Swedish industrialist and entomologist.- Life :...

, 1774)
(USA)
Trox uenoi Nomura, 1961 (Japan)
Trox unistriatus
Trox unistriatus
Trox unistriatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Palisot de Beauvois, 1818 (Canada to Texas)
Trox variolatus
Trox variolatus
Trox variolatus is a beetle of the Family Trogidae....

Melsheimer
Frederick Ernst Melsheimer
Frederick Ernst Melsheimer, M.D. was an American entomologist noted for his work on Coleoptera. He was President of the American Entomological Society in 1853. Frederick Ernest Melsheimer's most important work was Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of the United States...

, 1846
(Canada to Mexico)
Trox villosus Haaf, 1954 (Australia)
Trox yamayai Nakane, 1983 (Japan)
Trox yangi Masumoto, Ochi & Li, 2005 (Taiwan)
Trox zoufali Balthasar, 1931 (Taiwan)
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