Sphaeroscelis Burmeister, 1855

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 : 151

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15061385
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scientific name	Sphaeroscelis Burmeister, 1855
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Sphaeroscelis Burmeister, 1855 View in CoL

[1 species].

Type species Sphaeroscelis pectoralis Burmeister, 1855 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Cheirrhamphica Blackburn, 1898 View in CoL .

Type species Cheirrhamphica pubescens Blackburn, 1898 View in CoL , by subsequent designation of Lucas (1920). Synonymy by Britton (1957).

References

Blackburn, T. (1898) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 22, 18-64.

Britton, E. B. (1957) A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Volume 1. British Museum (Natural History), London, United Kingdom, 185 pp.

Burmeister, H. C. C. (1855) Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia, Phyllophaga, Chaenochela. Volume 4. Part 2. T. C. F. Enslin, Berlin, Germany, x + 569 pp.

Lucas, R. (1920) Catalogus alphabeticus generum et subgenerum coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius (fam., trib., subtr., sect. incl.) Pars 1. Nicolaischen Verlagsbuchhandlung R. Stricker, Berlin, Germany, xxxi + 696 pp.