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Phyllophaga Harris, 1827

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 : 131-132

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 https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15060092

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scientific name

 Phyllophaga Harris, 1827
status

 

Phyllophaga Harris, 1827 View in CoL (not Phyllophaga Rondani, 1856 View in CoL )

[782 species and 9 additional subspecies].

Type species Melolontha hirticula Knoch, 1801 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Glasgow (1916).

Lachnosterna Hope, 1837 View in CoL .

Type species Melolontha fervida Fabricius, 1775 View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Harold (1869b).

Trichestes Erichson, 1847b . Type species Melolontha pilosicollis Knoch, 1801 View in CoL , (= Melolontha tristis Fabricius, 1781 View in CoL ), by monotypy.

Synonymy by Harold (1869b).

Endrosa LeConte, 1856 View in CoL .

Type species Melolontha quercus Knoch, 1801 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Saylor (1942).

Synonymy with Lachnosterna View in CoL by Dalla Torre (1912c).

Eugastra LeConte, 1856 View in CoL .

Type species Tostegoptera cribrosa LeConte, 1853 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Bloeker (1937).

Synonymy with Lachnosterna View in CoL by Dalla Torre (1912c).

Gynnis LeConte, 1856 View in CoL .

Type species Gynnis debilis LeConte, 1856 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Dalla Torre (1912c).

Phyllophaga (Phytalus) Erichson, 1847b View in CoL .

Type species Melolontha puberea Mannerheim, 1828 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Saylor (1942).

Phyllophaga (Tostegoptera) Blanchard, 1851 View in CoL , as Tostegoptera .

Type species Melolontha lanceolata Say, 1824 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Status revised to Lachnosterna (Tostegoptera) by Dalla Torre (1912c).

Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) Saylor, 1942 View in CoL , as Cnemarachis .

Type species Lachnosterna vandinei Smyth, 1917 , by original designation.

Status revised to Phyllophaga (Cnemarachis) View in CoL by Sanderson (1951).

Cnemarachis (Abcrana) Saylor, 1942 View in CoL .

Type species Phyllophaga crinitissima More, 1924 View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Sanderson (1951).

Clemora Saylor, 1942 View in CoL .

Type species Phytalus smithi Arrow, 1912 View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Sanderson (1951).

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.

Bloeker, J. C. von. (1937) The status of Phyllophaga cribrosa (Le Conte) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 37, 83-88.

Dalla Torre, K. W. (1912 c) Melolonthinae III. Coleopterorum Catalogus, 49, 135-290.

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

Fabricius, J. C. (1775) Systema Entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Kortii, Flensburgi & Lipsiae [Flensburg & Leipzig], Germany, 32 + 832 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.36510

Glasgow R. D. (1916) Phyllophaga Harris (Lachnosterna Hope): a revision of the synonymy, and one new name Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 11, 365-379. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.inhs.v11.362

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

Harris, T. W. (1827) Minutes towards a history from some American species of melolonthae particularly injurious to vegetation. Massachusetts Agricultural Journal, 10, 1-12.

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.

LeConte, J. L. (1856) Synopsis of the Melolonthidae of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Series 2, 3, 225-288.

Mannerheim, C. G. (1828) Description de quarante nouvelles especes de scarabeides du Bresil. Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1, 29-80.

Sanderson, M. W. (1951) The Phyllophaga of Hispaniola (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 106, 249-283.

Saylor, L. W. (1942) Notes on beetles related to Phyllophaga Harris, with descriptions of new genera and subgenera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 92, 157-165. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.92-3145.157

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Melolonthinae

Tribe

Rhizotrogini

Specimens