Haploscapanes

Haploscapanes is a genus of insect in the scarab beetle clade. The genus lives along the western Australian coast.^[1]

Haploscapanes
A male Haploscapanes barbarossa
A female Haploscapanes barbarossa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Dynastinae
Tribe:	Dynastini
Genus:	Haploscapanes Arrow, 1908
Type species
Haploscapanes australicus Arrow, 1908

There are four species in this genus:^[2]

• Haploscapanes australicus Arrow, 1908
• Haploscapanes barbarossa (Fabricius, 1775)
• Haploscapanes inermis (Prell, 1911)
• Haploscapanes papuanus Dechambre & Drumont, 2004

Taxonomy

The genus belongs to the Scarabaeidae family which itself belongs to the Scarabaeoidea superfamily. The superfamily then belongs to the Coleoptera order which is part of the insecta clade and hexapoda clade. The hexapoda clade is then part of the Arthropoda phylum. Then the Arthropoda phylum is part of the Animalia clade which is part of the Eukaryote domain.^[3]