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

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.745.23685

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8785DC6B-C2A2-44FD-94B6-243EB07C717F

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EA7E0616-7BF9-5717-AA61-6E0E18399CCB

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scientific name

Ancognatha Erichson, 1847
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Loc

Ancognatha Erichson, 1847

Moore, Matthew R., Cave, Ronald D. & Branham, Marc A. 2018
2018
Loc

Lissodon

Paulian 1954
1954
Loc

Lissodon argodi

Paulian 1954
1954
Loc

Pseudoancognatha

Otoya 1945
1945
Loc

Ancognatha nigriventris

Otoya 1945
1945
Loc

Barotheus andinus

Bates 1891
1891
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Ancognatha

Erichson 1847
1847
Loc

Cyclocephala

Dejean 1821
1821