IRMNG - Melaphorus Guérin-Méneville, 1834

IRMNG taxon details

Melaphorus Guérin-Méneville, 1834

IRMNG_ID

1328177 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1328177)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802

Synonymised names

Melanophorus Lacordaire, 1859 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation

Raptor Gistl, 1848 [2] · unaccepted > junior objective synonym (unnecessary replacement name)

Stenholma Solier, 1835 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1834). Matériaux pour une classification des Mélasomes (extraits d'une monographie de cette famille). Magasin de Zoologie. 4 (Classe IX): pls 101–118 (pp. 1–39)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37085288
page(s): 13 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Melaphorus Guérin-Méneville, 1834. Accessed at: https://irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1328177 on 2026-08-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-13 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (9)

original description Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1834). Matériaux pour une classification des Mélasomes (extraits d'une monographie de cette famille). Magasin de Zoologie. 4 (Classe IX): pls 101–118 (pp. 1–39)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37085288
page(s): 13 [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 Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).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). ZooKeys. 1050: 1-633., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217 [details]

extant flag source Vidal & Guerrero, 2007 [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Raptor Gistl, 1848 [2]) Gistel, J. (1848). Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs: Für höhere Schulen. Hoffmann, Stuttgart.. xvi+216 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175526
page(s): ix, xi [details]

original description (of Melanophorus Lacordaire, 1859) Lacordaire, T. (1859). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Tome cinquième première partie. Contenant les familles des Ténébrionides, Cistélides, Nilionides, Pythides, Mélandryides, Lagriides, Pédilides, Anthicides, Pyrochroïdes, Mordellides, Rhipiphorides, Stylopides, Meloïdes et Oedémérides. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 400 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/135380
page(s): 74 [details]

original description (of Stenholma Solier, 1835) Solier, A.J. (1835). Essai sur les collaptérides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 4: 249-419, 509-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8311971
page(s): 412 [details]