Apogonia rauca (Fabricius, 1781)

Melolontha rauca Fabricius, 1781: 41; Olivier, 1789: 41; Herbst, 1790: 132; Fabricius, 1792: 170; Fabricius, 1801: 174

Apogonia rauca: Dejean, 1836: 179 (catalogue); Laporte de Castelnau, 1840: 141; Gemminger and Harold, 1869: 1156 (catalogue); Waterhouse, 1877: 224; Sharp, 1885: 31; Ritsema, 1891: 96 (catalogue); Nonfried, 1894b: 195; Heller, 1897a: 9 (key); Dalla Torre, 1912: 141 (catalogue); Bunalski, 1995: 1

Apogonia gemellata Kirby, 1819: 404 (imprint 1818) (type locality: "Brasilia?"); Blanchard, 1850: 228 (syn. of A. rauca); Ritsema, 1891: 94 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 138 (catalogue)

Anomala punctatissima Walker, 1859: 56 (type locality: " Ceylon ")

Apogonia punctatissima: Waterhouse, 1877: 225 (variety of A. rauca); Ritsema, 1891: 96 (syn. of A. rauca, catalogue); Brenske, 1900b: 349; Dalla Torre, 1912: 141 (catalogue); Arrow, 1916a: 431

Apogonia rauca var. unistriata Brenske, 1900b: 348 (type locality: "Puttalam; Nalanda"); Ritsema, 1904b: 115 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 141 (catalogue); Arrow, 1916a: 431 (syn. of A. rauca)

Apogonia soluta Kolbe, 1899b: 199 (type locality: " Ceylon "); Ritsema, 1904b: 114 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 142 (catalogue); Arrow, 1916a: 431 (syn. of A. rauca)

Apogonia liberata Kolbe, 1899b: 200 (type locality: " Ceylon "); Ritsema, 1904b: 113 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 139 (catalogue); Arrow, 1916a: 431 (syn. of A. rauca)

Apogonia intacta Kolbe, 1899b: 201 (type locality: " Ceylon "); Ritsema, 1904b: 112 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 139 (catalogue); Arrow, 1916a: 431 (syn. of A. rauca)

Type locality: "Coromandel".

Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra) (Sharp, 1885, Nonfried, 1894b), Sri Lanka (Waterhouse, 1877, Arrow, 1916a).

Remark: The geographic distribution of A. rauca is poorly known. Kirby (1819) described A. gemellata from "Brasilia?". Later on, Blanchard (1850) treated this taxon as a junior synonym of the Oriental species A. rauca . Although this concept was largely accepted by subsequent authors (e.g., Burmeister, 1855; Gemminger and Harold, 1869; Dalla Torre, 1912), the study of types of both species will be necessary to confirm this synonymy, because specimens reported as A. rauca from India by Blanchard (1850) were subsequently described as A. blanchardi by Ritsema (1898).