Megasoma Kirby, 1825

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae and Cetoniinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Megataxa 12 (1), pp. 1-103 : 5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3F8FCBDE-4285-45E9-AE99-6B7F0E696AD0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14149742

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0428EB14-FFC5-FFE7-4A43-FBCA35A6E71C

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Megasoma Kirby, 1825
status

 

Megasoma Kirby, 1825 View in CoL

(not Megasoma Boisduval, 1832 )

[24 species and 5 additional subspecies].

Type species Scarabaeus actaeon Linnaeus, 1758 , by original designation. Note: Burmeister (1847) incorrectly spelt Megasoma as “ Megalosoma ”.

Lycophontes Bruch, 1910 . Type species Lycophontes joergenseni Bruch, 1910 , by monotypy. Synonymy by Arrow (1937b). Note: Ratcliffe (2003) incorrectly spelt Lycophontes as “ Lyphontes ”.

Megasominus Casey, 1915 . Type species Megasoma thersites LeConte, 1861 , by original designation. Synonymy by Arrow (1937a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Loc

Megasoma Kirby, 1825

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul 2024
2024
Loc

Megasominus

Casey 1915
1915
Loc

Lycophontes

Bruch 1910
1910
Loc

Lycophontes joergenseni

Bruch 1910
1910
Loc

Lycophontes

Bruch 1910
1910
Loc

Megasoma thersites

LeConte 1861
1861
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