Elaphocera Gené, 1836

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 : 136

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Elaphocera Gené, 1836 View in CoL

[48 species and 4 additional subspecies].

Type species Elaphocera obscura Gené, 1836 View in CoL (= Elaphocera emarginata (Gyllenhal, 1817)) View in CoL , by monotypy.

Leptopus View in CoL : Dejean 1836.

Unavailable name.

Elaphocera (Elaphocerida) Reitter, 1902 View in CoL .

Type species Melolontha emarginata Gyllenhal, 1817 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Medvedev (1952).

Synonymy by Baraud (1987).

References

Baraud, J. (1987) Revision des Elaphocera d'Europe (Coleopteres Melolonthidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, (N. S.), 23, 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/21686351.1987.12278817

Dejean, P. F. M. A. (1836) Catalogue des Coleopteres de la Collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Troisieme edition. Revue, corrigee et augmentee. Mequignon-Marvis, Paris, France, 384 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/t.173109

Gene, A. J. (1836) [Diagnoses de dix-sept coleopteres nouveaux de Sardaigne]. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 5 (1) Bulletin Entomologique, ii-iv.

Medvedev, S. I. (1952) Fauna USSR: Coleoptera: Lamellicornia (Scarabaeidae), subfam. Melolonthinae. Tome 10. Part 2 [in Russian]. Akademii Nauk, SSSR, Moskva [Moscow], USSR, 276 pp.

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.