Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville, 1831

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 : 148

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Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville, 1831 View in CoL (not Heteronyx Saulcy, 1874 View in CoL , Heteronyx Faust, 1887 View in CoL , Heteronyx Saussure, 1887 View in CoL , nor Heteronyx Grant, 1908 View in CoL )

[227 species].

Type species Heteronyx australis Guérin-Méneville, 1831 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Cotidia Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL .

Type species Cotidia australis Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL (= Heteronyx dimidiatus ( Erichson, 1842)) View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Blackburn (1908).

Silopa Erichson, 1842 View in CoL .

Erected for eight species ( Silopa dimidiata Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ; Silopa fumata Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ; Silopa glabrata Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ; Silopa hepatica Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ; Silopa nigella Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ; Silopa praecox Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ; Silopa pubescens Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ; Silopa tempestiva Erichson, 1842 View in CoL ), but no type species designated.

Synonymy by Lacordaire (1856).

Hostilina Blanchard, 1850 View in CoL .

Type species Silopa praecox Erichson, 1842 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Harold (1869b).

Anacheirotus Blackburn, 1900 View in CoL .

Type species Anacheirotusinornatus Blackburn,1900, bymonotypy.

Synonymy by Britton (1988).

References

Blackburn, T. (1900) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXVI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 24, 35-68.

Blackburn, T. (1908) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXVIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 32, 362-386.

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.

Boisduval, J. B. A. D. de (1835) Voyage de decouvertes de l' Astrolabe execute par ordre du Roi, pendant les annees 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Ocean Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. Deuxieme Partie. Coleopteres et autres ordres. J. Tastu, Paris, France, vii + 716 pp.

Britton, E. B. (1988) Synopsis of the genera of Australian Heteronycini Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 27, 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1988.tb01139.x

Erichson, W. F. (1842) Beitrag zur Insecten-Fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographische Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 8, 83-287. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.21657

Guerin-Meneville, F. E. (1831) Atlas, Insectes. In: Duperrey, M. L. I. Voyage Autour du Monde, Execute par ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de la Majeste, la Coquille, Pendant les Annees 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le Ministere et Conformement aux Instructions de S. E. M. Le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ministre de la Marine; et Publie sous les Auspices de son Excellence Mgr le Cte de Chabrol, Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, Livraison 17-27. Arthus Bertrans, Paris, France, 21 plates.

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