IRMNG - Melanochrus Wollaston, 1864

IRMNG taxon details

Melanochrus Wollaston, 1864

IRMNG_ID

1451073 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1451073)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802

Synonymised names

Melasmocara Reitter, 1900 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Wollaston, T.V. (1864). Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum. Taylor & Francis, London, 648 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40054
page(s): 467 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Melanochrus Wollaston, 1864. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1451073 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-13 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

[taxonomic tree]

Sources (7)

original description Wollaston, T.V. (1864). Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum. Taylor & Francis, London, 648 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40054
page(s): 467 [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 Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).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]

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

current name source Bouchard, P.; Bousquet, Y.; Aalbu, R. L.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A.; Merkl, O.; Davies, A. E. (2021). Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1050: 1-633., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217 [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 Melasmocara Reitter, 1900) Reitter, E. (1900). Bestimmungs-Tabelle der Tenebrioniden-Abtheilungen: Tentyrini und Adelostomini, aus Europa und angrenzenden Gebieten. <em>Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn.</em> 39(Abh.): 82-197 [1901], preprint., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43825241
page(s): 95 [details]