Dyscinetus Harold, 1869

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 228

Genus Dyscinetus Harold, 1869

Dyscinetus Harold, 1869a: 123 [original usage, new replacement name for preoccupied genus name Chalepus MacLeay, 1819: 149 ].

syn. Palechus Casey, 1915: 174 [original usage]. Proposed as a subgenus. Type species: Palechus histrio Casey , by original designation.

Dyscinetus Harold [synonymy by Saylor 1945: 380].

Type species.

Melolontha geminata Fabricius, 1801 , by monotypy.

Keys.

Dawson 1922 (Nebraska, USA), Chapin 1932 (Cuba), Saylor 1945 (USA), Paulian 1947 (French Antilles), Arnett 1968 (USA), Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Moron 1979 (Veracruz, Mexico), Gordon and Anderson 1981 (larvae and adults, Florida, United States), Ratcliffe 1985, Maes 1994 (Nicaragua), Moron and Zaragoza 1976 (Estado de México, Mexico), Moron et al. 1985 (Chiapas, Mexico), Moron et al. 1988 ( Jalisco , Mexico), Ratcliffe 1991 (Nebraska, USA), Jameson et al. 2002, Ratcliffe 2003 (Costa Rica and Panama), Villegas-Urbano 2004 (larvae, Colombia), Ratcliffe and Cave 2006 (Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador), Ratcliffe and Paulsen 2008 (Nebraska, USA), Gasca-Álvarez and Amat-García 2010 (Colombia), Joly and Escalona 2010 (Venezuela), Neita-Moreno and Yepes 2011 (larvae), Ratcliffe et al. 2013 (Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico), Pardo-Locarno 2013 (Valle del Cauca , Colombia), Cherman et al. 2013 (larvae, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Ratcliffe and Cave 2015 (West Indies), Ratcliffe and Cave 2017 (USA and Canada).

Valid taxa.

21 species.