Geotrogus Guérin-Méneville, 1842

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 : 129

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scientific name	Geotrogus Guérin-Méneville, 1842
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Geotrogus Guérin-Méneville, 1842 View in CoL , as Rhisotrogus [sic] (Geotrogus)

[43 species and 8 additional subspecies].

Type species Rhisotrogus (Geotrogus) magagnoscii Guérin-Méneville, 1842 , by subsequent designation of Coca-Abia (2003).

Status revised to Geotrogus by Medvedev (1966).

Chthonobates Burmeister, 1855 View in CoL .

Introduced as a synonym of Geotrogus.

Apterogyna Harold, 1869b View in CoL .

Introduced as a synonym of Rhizotrogus View in CoL . Subsequently used by Marseul (1878) for three new species.

Pseudoapterogyna Escalera, 1914 View in CoL .

Replacement name for Apterogyna View in CoL (credited to Reitter, 1902), not Apterogyna Latreille, 1809 View in CoL .

Synonymy by Coca-Abia (2003).

References

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.

Coca-Abia, M. M. (2003) Phylogenetic relationships and distribution of the Rhizotrogini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae) in the west Mediterranean. Graellsia, 59, 443-455. https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2003.v59.i2-3.259

Escalera, M. M. (1914) Los coleopteros de Marruecos. Trabajos Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 11, 1-553.

Guerin-Meneville, F. E. (1842) Sur un groupe a separer du genre Rhizotrogus Latr. et description du R. Mayagnoscii. Revue Zoologique, 1842, 6-8.

Harold, E. (1869 b) Scarabaeidae. Catalogus Coleopterorum, 45, 976-1346.

Marseul, S. A. (1878) Nouvelles et faits divers de L' Abeille. Deuxieme serie Nos. 16 - 17. 1878. Melanges (suite). L'Abeille, 16, 61-68.

Medvedev, S. I. (1966) Revision of Chioneosoma Kraatz (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) and definition of its position among other genera of the Rhizotroginae [in Russian]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 45, 819-852.

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.