Sophrops Fairmaire, 1887a

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 : 132

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Sophrops Fairmaire, 1887a View in CoL

[117 species and 4 additional subspecies].

Type species Sophrops parviceps Fairmaire, 1887 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Microtrichia Brenske, 1900a View in CoL .

Type species Microtrichia puttalama Brenske, 1900 View in CoL (= Sophrops costatus ( Walker, 1859)) View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Nomura & Kobayashi (1979).

Synonymy by Arrow (1946a).

Holotrichia (Eretusa) Reitter, 1902 View in CoL .

Type species Ancylonycha nigra Redtenbacher, 1868 View in CoL (= Sophrops planicollis ( Burmeister, 1855)) View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Matsumoto (2015).

Holotrichia (Noanda) Reitter, 1902 View in CoL .

Type species Holotrichia standfussi Brenske, 1892 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Matsumoto (2015).

References

Arrow, G. J. (1946 a) Entomological results from the Swedish expedition 1934 to Burma and British India. Melolonthidae. Arkiv for Zoologi, 38 A (9), 1-33.

Brenske, E. (1900 a) Die Melolonthiden Ceylon's unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der von Herrn Dr. Horn gesammelten Arten. Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 61, 341-361.

Burmeister, H. C. C. (1855) Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia, Phyllophaga, Chaenochela. Volume 4. Part 2. T. C. F. Enslin, Berlin, Germany, x + 569 pp.

Fairmaire, L. (1887 a) Coleopteres de l'interieur de la Chine (3 e partie). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 31, 87-136.

Matsumoto, T. (2015) Changes of the systematic positions of eight species and two subgenera of the genus Holotrichia (Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae, Melolonthini). Kogane, 17, 5-10.

Nomura, S. & Kobayashi, H. (1979) Check-list of Coleoptera of Japan. Family Scarabaeidae (Melolonthnae). The Coleopterists' Association of Japan, 15, 1-20.

Redtenbacher, L. (1868) Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter der Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. Coleopteren. Mit funf Tafeln. Carl Gerold's Sohn, Wien, Austria, iv + 249 pp.

Reitter, E. (1902) Bestimmungs-Tabelle der Melolonthidae aus der europaischen Fauna und den angrenzenden Landern, enthaltend die Gruppen der Pachydemini, Sericini und Melolonthini. Verhandlungen und Naturforschenden Vereines in Brunn, 40, 93-303.

Walker, F. (1859) Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 3, 50-56.