IRMNG - Melalgus Dejean, 1835

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Melalgus Dejean, 1835

IRMNG_ID

1407414 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1407414)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Apate femoralis Fabricius, 1792 accepted as Melalgus femoralis (Fabricius, 1792) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Bostrichidae Latreille, 1802

Synonymised names

Exopioides Guérin-Méneville, 1844 · unaccepted

Exopsoides Guerin-Meneville, 1845 · unaccepted

Heterarthron Guérin in Sturm, 1843 · unaccepted

Heterarthron Guerin-Meneville in Dejean, 1837 · unaccepted

Heterarthrum Agassiz, 1846 · unaccepted

Direct children (26)

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Species Melalgus amoenus Lesne, 1911
Species Melalgus batillus Lesne, 1902
Species Melalgus borneensis Lesne, 1911
Species Melalgus caribeanus Lesne, 1906
Species Melalgus confertus (LeConte, 1866)
Species Melalgus crassulus Lesne, 1911
Species Melalgus digueti (Lesne, 1911)
Species Melalgus exesus (LeConte, 1858)
Species Melalgus feanus (Lesne, 1899)
Species Melalgus femoralis (Fabricius, 1792)
Species Melalgus gonagrus Fabricius, 1798
Species Melalgus gracilipes (Blanchard, 1843)
Species Melalgus jamaicensis Lesne, 1906
Species Melalgus longitarsus Lesne, 1911
Species Melalgus megalops (Fall, 1901)
Species Melalgus parvidens (Lesne, 1895)
Species Melalgus parvulus Lesne, 1925
Species Melalgus plicatus (LeConte, 1874)
Species Melalgus rufipes (Blanchard, 1843)
Species Melalgus strigipennis Lesne, 1937
Species Melalgus subdepressus (Lesne, 1897)
Species Melalgus talpula (Lesne, 1911)
Species Melalgus truncatus Guerin-Meneville, 1844
Species Melalgus valleculatus Lesne, 1913
Species Melalgus chilensis Lacordaire in Dejean, 1833 accepted as Polycaon chilensis (Erichson, 1834)
Species Melalgus cylindrica Dejean, 1833 accepted as Melalgus gracilipes (Blanchard, 1843)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Dejean, P.F.M.A. (1833-1836). Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Méquignon-Marvis, Paris. iv+443 pp. [(1):1-96, 19 January 1833; (2):97-176, 27 July 1833; (3):177-256, for nomenclatural purposes, 30 June 1834; (4):257–360, 22 August 1835; (5):361–443, for nomenclatural purposes, 31 December 1836]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36609
page(s): 309 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Melalgus Dejean, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1407414 on 2024-11-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-13 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2012-03-26 22:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

2021-04-04 21:39:33Z

changed

Girard, Jean-Sébastien

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Sources (10)
Notes (1)

original description Dejean, P.F.M.A. (1833-1836). Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Méquignon-Marvis, Paris. iv+443 pp. [(1):1-96, 19 January 1833; (2):97-176, 27 July 1833; (3):177-256, for nomenclatural purposes, 30 June 1834; (4):257–360, 22 August 1835; (5):361–443, for nomenclatural purposes, 31 December 1836]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36609
page(s): 309 [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
note: as nomen nudum [details]

status source Bousquet, Y. & Bouchard, P. (2013). The genera in the second catalogue (1833–1836) of Dejean's Coleoptera collection. ZooKeys. 282: 1-219., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.282.4401 [details]

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

name verified source 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]

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

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Heterarthron Guérin in Sturm, 1843) in Sturm, Catal. Käfer Samml.
page(s): 231 [details]

original description (of Heterarthrum Agassiz, 1846) Agassiz, L. (1846). Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis. Jent & Gassman. viii + 393 pp. [1847]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33664307 [details]

original description (of Exopioides Guérin-Méneville, 1844) Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1844). Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux. Avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas à tous les traités de zoologie. Insectes. J.B. Baillière, Paris and London. 576 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/88601
page(s): 187 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info type is femoralis (Hallan, 2000-) [details]