Melolontha Fabricius, 1775

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Megataxa 12 (1), pp. 104-175 : 125

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15059696

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03928792-D651-2955-FF7E-7ACAFC9BF969

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scientific name

Melolontha Fabricius, 1775
status

 

Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 View in CoL (not Melolontha Geoffroy, 1762 View in CoL )

[68 species and 7 additional subspecies].

Conserved name ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1994).

Type species Scarabaeus melolontha Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL , by absolute tautonymy.

Melolontha (Oplosternus) Guérin-Méneville, 1838 .

Type species Melolontha (Oplosternus) chinensis Guérin-Méneville, 1838 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Semenov (1895).

Note: Blanchard (1851) incorrectly spelt Oplosternus as “ Hoplosternus View in CoL ”.

Ludibrius Gozis, 1886 View in CoL .

Unnecessary replacement name for Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 View in CoL .

Melolontha (Apropyga) Medvedev, 1951 View in CoL .

Type species Melolontha aceris Faldermann, 1836 View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Rössner & Hillert (2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Melolonthinae

Tribe

Melolonthini

Loc

Melolontha Fabricius, 1775

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul 2024
2024
Loc

Melolontha (Apropyga)

Medvedev 1951
1951
Loc

Ludibrius

Gozis 1886
1886
Loc

Melolontha (Oplosternus) Guérin-Méneville, 1838

Guerin-Meneville 1838
1838
Loc

Melolontha (Oplosternus) chinensis Guérin-Méneville, 1838

Guerin-Meneville 1838
1838
Loc

Melolontha

Fabricius 1775
1775
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