Genus Apogonia Kirby, 1819

Apogonia Kirby, 1819: 401 (imprint 1818); Burmeister, 1855: 254; Lacordaire, 1856: 276; Gemminger and Harold, 1869: 1155 (catalogue); Ritsema, 1891: 93 (catalogue); Ritsema, 1896d: 55 (catalogue); Péringuey, 1904: 289 (key); Ritsema, 1904b: 111 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 135 (catalogue), Ritsema, 1912: 128 (catalogue); Wu, 1937: 1023 (catalogue); Sawada, 1940: 269 (key); Burgeon, 1945: 2 (key), 3 (key); Medvedev, 1951: 226; Sabatinelli, 1993: 600 (catalogue); Yu et al., 1998: 214 (key)

Type species: Apogonia gemellata Kirby, 1819 (= A. rauca (Fabricius, 1781)); by monotypy.

Distribution: The majority of species is distributed in the Oriental and Ethiopian regions. Several species reach the south­eastern part of Palaearctic region (China, Korea, and Japan), and one species was described from eastern Iran. Surprisingly, the genus Apogonia has recently been recorded from Asiatic Turkey (Keith, 2001), but without identification of particular species.

Remark. Although the publication in which the name Apogonia first appeared was dated 1818, it was not published until July 1819 (see Raphael, 1970).