IRMNG - Automolus Burmeister, 1855

IRMNG name details

Automolus Burmeister, 1855

IRMNG_ID

1283696 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1283696)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym

Accepted name

Automolius Britton, 1978

Rank

Genus

Parent

Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802

Direct children (18)

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Species Automolus brooksi Britton, 1957
Species Automolus vulgaris Britton, 1957
Species Automolus angustulus Burmeister, 1855 accepted as Automolius angustulus Burmeister
Species Automolus brunneus Lea, 1917 accepted as Automolius brunneus (Lea, 1917)
Species Automolus fulgineus Britton, 1957 accepted as Automolius fulgineus (Britton, 1957)
Species Automolus funereus Blackburn, 1906 accepted as Automolius funereus (Blackburn, 1906)
Species Automolus irrasus Blackburn, 1906 accepted as Automolius irrasus (Blackburn, 1906)
Species Automolus major Blackburn, 1906 accepted as Automolius major (Blackburn, 1906)
Species Automolus melancholicus Lea, 1917 accepted as Automolius depressus Blanchard
Species Automolus nanus Britton, 1957 accepted as Automolius nanus (Britton, 1957)
Species Automolus opaculus Blackburn, 1906 accepted as Automolius opaculus (Blackburn, 1906)
Species Automolus phoxus Britton, 1957 accepted as Automolius phoxus (Britton, 1957)
Species Automolus pictus Blackburn, 1906 accepted as Automolius pictus (Blackburn, 1906)
Species Automolus propygidialis Lea, 1917 accepted as Automolius humilis (Blanchard, 1850)
Species Automolus semitifer Blackburn, 1906 accepted as Automolius semitifer (Blackburn, 1906)
Species Automolus sordidus Britton, 1957 accepted as Automolius sordidus (Britton, 1957)
Species Automolus sulcatus Britton, 1957 accepted as Automolius sulcatus (Britton, 1957)
Species Automolus tridentifrons Lea, 1917 accepted as Automolius tridentifrons (Lea, 1917)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Burmeister, H. (1855). Handbüch der Entomologie, Volume 4, Part 2. T.C.F. Enslin, Berlin. xii+587 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34016
page(s): 192, 202 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2025). Automolus Burmeister, 1855. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1283696 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-11-13 23:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2025-04-26 00:18:50Z

changed

Girard, Jean-Sébastien

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Sources (7)

original description Burmeister, H. (1855). Handbüch der Entomologie, Volume 4, Part 2. T.C.F. Enslin, Berlin. xii+587 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34016
page(s): 192, 202 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

basis of record Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) [details]

source of synonymy Allsopp, P. G.; Schoolmeesters, P. (2024). All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). <em>Megataxa.</em> 12(1): 104-175., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2 [details]

verified source for family Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012). [details]

extant flag source Australian Faunal Directory, 2007 version. Available online at https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home. [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]