Stethaspis Hope, 1837

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 : 150

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Stethaspis Hope, 1837 View in CoL

[9 species].

Type species Melolontha suturalis, Fabricius, 1775 View in CoL , by plenary power. Name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology ( International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1983).

Micronyx Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL (not Micronyx Schönherr, 1833 View in CoL ).

Type species Micronyx chlorophyllus Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL (= Stethaspis suturalis ( Fabricius, 1775)) View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by White (1846).

Costleya Broun, 1893 View in CoL .

Type species Costleya discoidea Broun, 1893 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy with Chlorochiton Arrow View in CoL by Given (1952).

Stethaspis Broun, 1893 View in CoL .

Type species Stethaspis prasinus Broun, 1893 , by monotypy.

Poecilodiscus Broun, 1895 View in CoL .

Type species Poecilodiscus pulcher Broun, 1895 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy with Chlorochiton Arrow View in CoL by Given (1952).

Chlorochiton Arrow, 1903 View in CoL .

Unnecessary replacement name for Micronyx Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL .

Neostethaspis Dalla Torre, 1912b View in CoL .

Replacement name for Stethaspis Broun, 1893 View in CoL , not Stethaspis Hope, 1837 View in CoL .

Synonymy by Given (1952).

References

Arrow, G. J. (1903) On the affinities and nomenclature of certain genera of melolonthid and rutelid Coleoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 11, 303-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930308678772

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.

Broun, T. (1895) Descriptions of new Coleoptera from New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 15, 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939508677867

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

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

Given, B. B. (1952) A revision of the Melolonthinae of New Zealand. Part 1: The adult beetles. Bulletin of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 102, 1-137.

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.

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. (1983) Opinion 1244. Stethaspis Hope, 1837 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae): designation of type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 40, 37-38

White, A. (1846) Part XI. Insects of New Zealand. In: Richardson J. & Gray J. E. The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R. N., F. R. S., during the years 1839 to 1843. By authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Edited by John Richardson and John Edward Gray. Vol. II. Reptiles, fishes, Crustacea, Insects, Mollusca. Volume 2. E. W. Janson, London, United Kingdom, pp. 1-24.