Emphania Erichson, 1847b

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 : 143

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15060815
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scientific name	Emphania Erichson, 1847b
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Emphania Erichson, 1847b View in CoL (not Emphania Reichenbach, 1852 View in CoL )

[8 species].

Type species Emphania metallica Blanchard, 1850 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (2005).

Heptomera Blanchard, 1850 View in CoL .

Type species Heptomera metallica Blanchard, 1850 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Objective synonym of Emphania Erichson. View in CoL

References

Blanchard, C. E. (1850) Catalogue des collections entomologiques du Museum d'histoire naturelle de Paris. Classe des Insectes, Ordre des Coleopteres I. Gide et Baudry, Paris, France, pp. 1-128.

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

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (2005) Opinion 2130 (Case 3289) Emphania Erichson, 1847 (Insecta, Coleoptera): usage conserved by designation of Heptomera metallica Blanchard, 1850 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 62, 177-178.