''Pentodon'' is a genus of
Palaearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
Th ...
beetles belonging to the subfamily
Dynastinae
Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarabaeidae, scarab beetle family (biology), family (Scarabaeidae). Other common names – some for particular groups of rhinoceros beetles – include Hercules beetles, unicorn be ...
, it is the type genus of tribe
Pentodontini.
Species
''BioLib'' includes:
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Pentodon algerinus''
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Pentodon bengalensis''
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Pentodon bidens'' - type species (as ''Scarabaeus punctatus''
= ''P. bidens punctatus'')
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Pentodon brachypterus''
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Pentodon caminarius''
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Pentodon foveipennis''
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Pentodon idiota''
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Pentodon insularis''
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Pentodon intermedius''
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Pentodon kuwaitensis''
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Pentodon minutus''
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Pentodon quadridens''
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Pentodon reitteri''
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Pentodon snegovayae''
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Pentodon topali''
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Pentodon variolopunctatus''
References
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Dynastinae
Scarabaeidae genera
Taxa named by Frederick William Hope