''Cyclocephala hirta'' is a species in the family
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 35,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change. Several groups formerly tre ...
("scarab beetles"), in the order
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
("beetles").
''C. hirta'' and cousin ''
Cyclocephala pasadenae
''Cyclocephala pasadenae'', also known as the Pasadena masked chafer, is a species of rhinoceros beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. Native to southwestern North America, they and their cousins ''Cyclocephala hirta
''Cyclocephala hirta'' is a ...
'' are among the most common "June beetles" found in the
Los Angeles Basin
The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary Structural basin, basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges. The basin is also connected to an wikt:anomalous, anomalous group of east–west trending chains of mountai ...
.
References
Further reading
* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
* Ross H. Arnett. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
Dynastinae
Beetles described in 1861
Taxa named by John Lawrence LeConte
Beetles of North America
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