Lepanus Balthasar, 1966

Gunter, Nicole L., Génier, François & Weir, Thomas A., 2025, Paraphacosomoides Balthasar, 1968, a junior synonym of Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with redescription of Lepanus curvipes (Balthasar, 1966), Zootaxa 5627 (3), pp. 587-593 : 588

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5627.3.12
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15326167
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scientific name	Lepanus Balthasar, 1966
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Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 View in CoL

Lepanus Balthasar, 1966: 177 View in CoL ; Matthews 1974: 100; Gunter & Weir 2019a: 41 View Cited Treatment ; Gunter et al. 2019: 459. Type species Lepanus ovatus Balthasar, 1966 View in CoL (by original designation).

Panelus (Parapanelus) Balthasar, 1966: 180 . Type species Panelus (Parapanelus) gressitti Balthasar, 1966 View in CoL (by monotypy). Synonymy by Matthews (1974).

Phacosomoides Balthasar, 1966: 178 View in CoL . Type species Phacosomoides curvipes Balthasar, 1966 View in CoL (by original designation). New synonymy.

Paraphacosomoides Balthasar, 1968: 92 View in CoL . Replacement name for Phacosomoides Balthasar, 1966 View in CoL , not Phacosomoides Martínez & Pereira, 1959 View in CoL . New synonymy.

Pseudophacosoma Paulian, 1975: 241 View in CoL . Unnecessary replacement name for Phacosomoides Balthasar, 1966 View in CoL . New synonymy.

Oficanthon Paulian, 1985: 227 View in CoL . Type species Oficanthon mirabilis Paulian, 1985 View in CoL (by original designation). Synonymy by Gunter et al. (2022).

Comments. Paraphacosomoides is a monotypic genus here treated as a junior synonym of Lepanus . Both genera are described in Balthasar (1966), Lepanus appearing on page 177, Phacosomoides appearing on page 178. For a generic description of Lepanus , refer to Matthews (1974) and Gunter et al. (2019).