Chironidae is a family of beetles belonging to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Chironidae are primitive looking scarab beetles that occur in Africa, Asia (predominantly India) and Madagascar.Huchet J.-B. (2000). – Scission du genre Chiron Mac Leay, 1819 et description de deux nouveaux genres de Chironidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 36(1): 3–28.Huchet J.-B. (2002). – Révision du genre Amphiceratodon Huchet 2000 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Chironidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 107(1): 61-78.Huchet J.-B., Lumaret J.-P. (2002). – The larva of Chiron senegalensis Hope & Westwood, 1845 and comments on relationships with other Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera : Chironidae). European Journal of Entomology 99(3): 363-372.Huchet J.-B. (2003). – Insectes Coléoptères Chironidae. Faune de Madagascar 90: 91 p. http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/faunemad/fm90.html Huchet J.-B. (2004). – Révision du genre Theotimius Huchet, 2000 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea: Chironidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 40(1): 3-21.Smith, Andrew B. T. "Book Review: Insecta Coleoptera Chironidae (Huchet, J.B. 2003)" (2003) Papers in Entomology, 119.Huchet J.-B. (2019a). – Quatre nouvelles espèces du genre Chiron MacLeay, 1819 de la région afrotropicale (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea : Chironidae). Coléoptères 25(11) : 157-178.Huchet J.-B. (2019b). – Un nouveau Chiron MacLeay, 1819 d’Afrique subsaharienne (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea : Chironidae). Coléoptères 25(13) : 185-192.Huchet J.-B. (2019c). – Trois nouveaux Chiron MacLeay, 1819 d’Afrique orientale (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea : Chironidae). Coléoptères 25(16) : 213-224.Huchet J.-B., (2020). – Chiron elegans, nouvelle espèce d’Afrique subsaharienne (Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea : Chironidae). Faunitaxys 8(9) : 1-3.Huchet J.-B., (2025). – New Taxonomic Data on African Chironidae: Description of Chiron vignei n. sp. from Tanzania (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Zootaxa 5693(2): 261–271.
Genera and species
The following genera and species are included in Chironidae: Genus Amphiceratodon Huchet, 2000 Amphiceratodon argonautes Huchet, 2002 - Africa Amphiceratodon arrowi Huchet, 2002 - Africa Amphiceratodon capensis (Hope, 1845) - Africa Amphiceratodon karooensis Huchet, 2002 Genus Chiron MacLeay, 1819 Chiron aberlenci Huchet, 2019 - Africa Chiron assamensis Hope, 1845 - India Chiron bartolozzii Huchet, 2019 - Somalia Chiron cylindrus (Fabricius, 1798) - Palaearctic, Indomalaya Chiron demirei Huchet, 2019 - Africa Chiron elegans Huchet, 2020 - Africa Chiron hovanus Fairmaire, 1901 - Madagascar Chiron kelleri Fairmaire, 1893 - Somalia Chiron lucifer Huchet, 2019 - Africa Chiron mariannae Huchet, 2019 - Africa Chiron massaicus Huchet, 2019 - Africa Chiron oddurensis Huchet, 2019 - Somalia Chiron senegalensis Hope, 1845 - Senegal Chiron stuempkei Huchet, 2019 - Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda Chiron vignei Huchet, 2025 - Tanzania Chiron volvulus Klug, 1855 - Mozambique Genus Theotimius Huchet, 2000 Subgenus Amaecylius Huchet, 2000 - Africa, Madagascar Theotimius angolensis Huchet, 2004 - Angola Theotimius gravis (Péringuey, 1901) - Lesotho Theotimius laevicollis (Arrow, 1936) - Kenya Theotimius macleayi Huchet, 2003 - Madagascar Theotimius mahafalensis (Paulian, 1976) - Madagascar Theotimius patrizii (Boucomont, 1923) - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania Theotimius pauliani Huchet, 2003 - Madagascar Theotimius rhodesianus (Arrow, 1936) - Zambia, Mozambique Subgenus Theotimius Huchet, 2000 Theotimius grandis (Gory, 1838) - Sahelian Africa
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