Miridiba Reitter, 1902

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 : 131

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15060049
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scientific name	Miridiba Reitter, 1902
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Miridiba Reitter, 1902 View in CoL

[77 species].

Type species Rhizotrogus trichophorus Fairmaire, 1891 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Holotrochus Brenske,1894a View in CoL .

Type species Holotrochus vestitus Brenske, 1894 (= Miridiba (Miridiba) trichophora (Fairmaire, 1891)) View in CoL , by monotypy.

Shangaia Lucas, 1920 View in CoL .

Replacement name for Holotrochus Brenske, 1894a View in CoL , not Holotrochus Erichson, 1839 View in CoL .

Synonymy by Itoh (1991).

Hippotrichia Arrow, 1948b View in CoL .

Type species Hippotrichia hainana Arrow, 1948 View in CoL (= Miridiba (Miridiba) sus (Moser, 1912)) View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Nomura & Kobayashi (1979).

Neodontocnema Arrow, 1948b View in CoL .

Type species Holotrichia coromandeliana Blanchard, 1851 View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Nomura (1977).

Miridiba (Pledina) Reitter, 1902 View in CoL , as Holotrichia (Pledina) .

Type species Holotrichia sinensis Hope, 1842 View in CoL , by original designation.

Status revised to Miridiba (Pledina) View in CoL by Nomura (1977).

Arrow, G. J. (1948 b) Further notes on the beetle genus Lachnosterna (Col.: Melolonthinae), with descriptions of three new genera. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series B, 17, 49-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3113.1948.tb00885.x

Blanchard, C. E. (1851) Catalogue des collections entomologiques du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Classe des Insectes, Ordre des Coleopteres I. Gide et Baudry, Paris, France, pp. 129-240.

Brenske, E. (1894 a) Die Melolonthiden der palaearktischen und orientalischen Region im Koniglichen naturhistorischen Museum zu Brussel. Beschreibung neuer Arten und Bemerkungen zu bekannten. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 2, 3-87.

Lucas, R. (1920) Catalogus alphabeticus generum et subgenerum coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius (fam., trib., subtr., sect. incl.) Pars 1. Nicolaischen Verlagsbuchhandlung R. Stricker, Berlin, Germany, xxxi + 696 pp.

Nomura, S. (1977) On the Melolonthini of Taiwan (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Toho-Gakuho, 27, 85-109.

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

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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Scarabaeidae
SubFamily	Melolonthinae
Tribe	Rhizotrogini