Colobostoma Blanchard, 1850

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 : 149

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scientific name	Colobostoma Blanchard, 1850
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Colobostoma Blanchard, 1850 View in CoL

[8 species].

Type species Sericesthis rufipennis Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Platydesmus Macleay, 1887 View in CoL .

Type species Platydesmus sulcipennis Macleay, 1887 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Blackburn (1907).

Pteroplatydesmus Dalla Torre, 1912b View in CoL .

Replacement name for Platydesmus Macleay, 1887 View in CoL , not Platydesmus Lucas, 1843 View in CoL .

Synonymy by Britton (1990).

References

Blackburn, T. (1907) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXVII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 31, 231-299.

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. (1990) A synopsis of the Australian genera of Liparetrini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 4, 159-195. https://doi.org/10.1071/IT9900159

Dalla Torre, K. W. (1912 b) Melolonthinae II. Coleopterorum Catalogus, 47, 89-134.

Macleay, W. (1887) The insects of the Cairns district, northern Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Series 2, 2, 213-238. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29175