Maechidius MacLeay, 1819

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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Maechidius MacLeay, 1819 View in CoL

[162 species].

Type species Trox spurius Kirby, 1819 , by monotypy.

Note: Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Audinet-Serville (1828) incorrectly spelt Maechidius View in CoL as “ Mechidius ”, and Laporte (1840) incorrectly spelt Maechidius View in CoL as “ Michidius ”.

Geobatus View in CoL : Dejean 1833.

Unavailable name.

Geobatus Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL .

Type species Geobatus sordidus Boisduval, 1835 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Blackburn (1898).

Epholcis Waterhouse, 1875a View in CoL .

Type species Epholcis divergens Waterhouse, 1875 View in CoL , by monotypy.

Synonymy by Telnov (2020).

Paramaechidius Frey, 1969 View in CoL .

Type species Maechidius pauxillus Heller, 1910 View in CoL , by original designation.

Synonymy by Telnov (2020).

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.

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.

Dejean, P. F. M. A. (1833) Catalogue des Coleopteres de la Collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Mequignon-Marvis, Paris, France, 176 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8771

Kirby, W. (1819) A century of insects, including several new genera described from his cabinet. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 12, 375-453. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1817.tb00239.x

Laporte, F. L., Comte de Castelnau (1840) Histoire naturelle des insectes coleopteres, avec une introduction renfermant l'anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articules, par M. Brulle. Tome deuxieme. P. Dumenil, Paris, France, 563 + 1 pp.

Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, A. S. F. & Audinet-Serville, J. G. A. (1828) Scarabe. In: Latreille P. A. Histoire naturelle. entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Tome 10. Encyclopedie Methodique, Paris, France, 833 pp.

MacLeay, W. S. (1819) Horae entomologicae: or essays on the annulose animals. Volume 1. Part 1. Bagster, London, United Kingdom, xxx + 2 + 160 pp. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.65809

Telnov, D. (2020) A revision of the Maechidiini Burmeister, 1855 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from the Indo- Australian transition zone, and the first record of the tribe west of Wallace's Line. European Journal of Taxonomy, 721, 1-210. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.721.1127

Waterhouse. C. O. (1875 a) Descriptions of new Coleoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1875, 191-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1875.tb01907.x