Aegostheta Dejean, 1833

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 : 135

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Aegostheta Dejean, 1833 View in CoL

[13 species].

Type species Melolontha longicornis Fabricius, 1787 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Note: Erichson (1847b) incorrectly spelt Aegostheta View in CoL as “ Aegostetha ”.

Macrophylla Hope, 1837 View in CoL (not Macrophylla Hughes, 1928 View in CoL ).

Type species Melolontha longicornis Fabricius, 1787 View in CoL , by original designation.

Objective synonym of Aegostheta Dejean. View in CoL

Pleiophylla Péringuey, 1904 View in CoL .

Type species Pleiophylla vestita Péringuey, 1904 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Lacroix (2007).

References

Dejean, P. F. M. A. (1833) Catalogue des Coleopteres de la Collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Mequignon-Marvis, Paris, France, 176 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8771

Erichson, W. F. (1847 b) Naturgeschichte des Insecten Deutschland. I. Coleoptera, Scaphidilia, Scarabaeides. Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, Berlin, Germany, pp. 481-800.

Hope, F. W. (1837) The coleopterist's manual, containing the lamellicorn insects of Linnaeus and Fabricius. Volume 1. H. G. Bohn, London, United Kingdom, xiii + 121 pp.

Lacroix, M. (2007) Pachydeminae du Monde. Genera et Catalogue commente (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae). Editions M. Lacroix, Collection Hannetons, Paris, France, 450 pp.

Peringuey, L. (1904) Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 13, 1-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/21560382.1904.9525994