Genus Scarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758

Scarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. Ed., 10: 345 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758).

Actinophorus Creutzer, 1799, Ent. Versuche: 79 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758); Gillet, 1911a, Coleopt. Cat., Scaraboidea: Coprinae I, pars 38, 19: 6 (Syn.).

Ateuchus Weber, 1801, Observ. Ent.: 10; Lacordaire, 1856, Gen. Col., 3: 66 (Syn.).

Ateuchus Fabricius, 1801, Syst. Eleuth., 1: 54 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758).

Heliocantharus MacLeay, 1821, Horae Ent., 1(2): 497 (Type species: Scarabaeus sacer Linnaeus, 1758); Gillet, 1911a, Coleopt. Cat., Scaraboidea: Coprinae I, pars 38, 19: 6 (Syn.).

Sebasteos Westwood, 1847, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 4: 225 (Type species: Sebasteos galenus Westwood, 1847); Péringuey, 1901, Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc., 12: 26, 57 (Syn.).

Ateuchetus Bedel, 1892, Abeille, 27: 282; Reitter, 1892, Verh. Naturforsch. Ver. Brünn, 24: 162 (Syn.).

Parateuchus Shipp, 1895, Entom., 28: 221 (Type species: Scarabaeus morbillosus Fabricius, 1792); Gillet, 1911a, Coleopt. Cat., Scaraboidea: Coprinae I, pars 38, 19: 6 (Syn.).

Neateuchus Gillet, 1911b, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 55: 309 (Type species: Ateuchus proboscideus Guérin-Méneville, 1844).

Neomnematium Janssens, 1938, Scarabaeini Col. Exp. Parc Nat. Miss. Fasc. 21 Bruxelles: 71 (Type species: Scarabaeus sevoistra Alluaud, 1902).

Drepanopodus Janssens, 1940, Mém. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 16(2): 73 (Type species: Ateuchus costatus Wiedemann, 1823).

Madateuchus Paulian, 1953, Mém. Ins. Sci. Mad., 3(E): 24 (Type species: Madateuchus viettei Paulian, 1953).