Euparixia

There are ten species in this myrmecophilous genus of Scarabaeidae.

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List of Euparixia and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Euparixia boliviana	Gordon & Mccleve, 2003	ants	NEOTROPICAL(BOLIVIA, PERU)
Euparixia bruneri	Chapin, 1940	ants	Cuba
Euparixia campbelli	Gordon & Mccleve, 2003	ants	NEOTROPICAL(GUATEMALA, MEXICO)
Euparixia costaricensis	Hinton, 1936	ants	NEOTROPICAL(COSTA RICA, HONDURAS)
Euparixia duncani	Brown, 1927	ants	NEARCTIC(USA:ARIZONA), NEOTROPICAL(MEXICO:JALISCO, MORELOS, NAYARIT, SINALOA)
Euparixia formica	Hinton, 1934	ants	NEOTROPICAL(MEXICO:CHIAPAS, MÉXICO)
Euparixia isthmia	Gordon & Mccleve, 2003	ants	NEOTROPICAL(PANAMA, VENEZUELA, COLOMBIA)
Euparixia mexicana	Gordon & Mccleve, 2003	Atta mexicana	NEOTROPICAL(MEXICO:COLIMA, JALISCO, NAYARIT, SINALOA, SONORA)
Euparixia moseri	Woodruff & Cartwright, 1967	ants	NEARCTIC(USA:LOUISIANA)
Euparixia panamaensis	Gordon & Mccleve, 2003	ants	Panama

REFERENCES

• Chalumeau, F., & Gruner, L. (1974). Scarabaeoidea des Antilles Francaises. Annales De La Société Entomologique De France. Paris(N.S.) 10(4):781-819.

• Chapin, E. A. (1940). A revision of the West Indian beetles of the Scarabaeid subfam Aphodiinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington 89(3092):1-41.

• Gordon, R.D. & Mccleve, S. Five new species of Euparixia, with a revised key to species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 105(3):685-697. (2003).

• Jose Luis Navarrete-Heredia and Jesus Cortes-Aguilar. 2004. Beetles (Coleoptera) Associated with the External Debris of Atta mexicana (F.Smith)(Hymenoptera:Formicidae) from Ojuelos, Jalisco, Mexico. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash.106(2):481-482.

• Maruyama 2010. A new genus and species of myrmecophilous aphodiine beetle (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) inhabiting the myrmecophytic epiphyte Platycerium sp. (Polypodiaceae) in the Bornean rainforest canopy. ZooKeys 34: 49-54

• Wojcik, D. P., W. A. Banks, D. M. Hicks, and J. W. Summerlin. 1977. Fire ant myrmecophiles: new hosts and distribution of Myrmecaphodius excavaticollis (Blanchard) and Euparia castanea Serville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Coleop. Bull. 31: 329-334.