Ancognatha Erichson, 1847

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Annotated catalog and bibliography of the cyclocephaline scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Cyclocephalini), ZooKeys 745, pp. 101-378 : 110-111

Genus Ancognatha Erichson, 1847

Ancognatha Erichson, 1847a: 97 [original usage].

Cyclocephala Dejean [synonymy by Lacordaire 1856: 398].

Ancognatha Erichson [revalidated genus status by Bates 1888: 297].

Ancognatha syn. Barotheus Bates, 1891: 30-31 [original usage]. Type species: Barotheus andinus Bates, 1891, by monotypy.

Ancognatha Erichson [synonymy by Endrődi 1966: 365].

Ancognatha syn. Lissodon Paulian, 1954: 1154 [original usage]. Type species: Lissodon argodi Paulian, 1954, by monotypy.

Ancognatha Erichson [synonymy by Endrődi 1969b: 38].

Ancognatha syn. Pseudoancognatha Otoya, 1945: 275 [original usage]. Proposed as a subgenus. Type species: Ancognatha nigriventris Otoya, 1945, by original designation. Ancognatha Erichson [synonymy by Martínez 1965a: 64].

Type species.

Ancognatha scarabaeoides Erichson, subsequent designation by Casey 1915: 111.

Keys.

Saylor 1945 (USA), Arnett 1968 (USA), Endrődi 1966, 1985a, Figueroa and Ratcliffe 2016 (Peru), Morón and Deloya 1991 (Mexico, Durango), Morón-Ríos and Morón 2001 (Mexico, Chiapas), Ratcliffe et al. 2013 (Mexico), Neita-Moreno and Morón 2008 (larvae), Vallejo and Morón 2008 (larvae), Pardo-Locarno et al. 2006, Gasca-Álvarez and Amat-García 2010 (Colombia), Mondaca 2011 (Chile), Villalobos-Moreno et al. 2017 (Colombia), Ratcliffe and Cave 2017 (USA and Canada).

Valid taxa.

22 species.