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The following is a checklist of all Melolonthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
found in the New World. It has been modified from Evans (2003),
Evans and Smith (2005), and Smith and Evans (2005) and has been updated
to 1 March 2007.
Included in this checklist are all of the available names given for
New World Melolonthinae (both valid and invalid). Tribes are
listed in traditional order (pseudo-phylogenetically) with genera,
species, and subspecies listed alphabetically within. Under each
valid generic name the subgenera and synonymies are listed as are type
species and, in some cases, citations for keys, checklists, and bibliographies. Listed
under each valid species are synonymies, distributional data by country,
and citations for new combinations and spellings. A complete
bibliography is included in the “References” section of
all papers mentioned in the checklist.
The purpose of this checklist is to present accurate and complete information
for all the names of Melolonthinae in the New World. The taxonomy
herein is based on the current literature (even if we have unpublished
data contradicting what has been published) and the nomenclature carefully
follows the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. It
is our intent to update this checklist periodically as errors are corrected
and new papers are published requiring changes.
Please email
us any errors, additions, or suggestions for this checklist. We would
greatly appreciate copies of new papers pertaining to New World Melolonthinae
to help us keep this list as up-to-date as possible.
Catalogues: Dejean, 1821, 1833, 1836; Haldeman and LeConte, 1853; LeConte, 1863a; Harold, 1869a; Crotch, 1873; Henshaw, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1895; Dalla Torre, 1912a, b, c 1913; Leng, 1920; Leng and Mutchler, 1914, 1917, 1927, 1933; Blackwelder, 1939, 1944; Blackwelder and Blackwelder, 1948; Blackwelder and Arnett, 1974; Bousquet, 1991; Poole and Gentili, 1996; Smith, 2001; Evans, 2003; Smith and Evans, 2005.
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We would like to thank the following people for
assistance in reviewing previous versions of the checklist, supplying
us with pertinent literature, discussing various aspects of Melolonthinae
classification, and/or helping with nomenclatural issues and determining
publication dates: Charles L. Bellamy (California Department of Food
and Agriculture, Sacramento, California, USA), Ales Bezdek (Institute
of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic), Tristão
Branco (Porto, Portugal), Ev Britton (CSIRO, Canberra, Australia,
now deceased), Phillip Harpootlian, (Simpsonville, South Carolina,
USA), Mary Liz Jameson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska,
USA), Paul Lago (University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi,
USA), Scott McCleve (Douglas, Arizona, USA), Jose Mondaca (Santiago,
Chile), Miguel Angel Morón
(Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz, México), Federico
Ocampo (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Matt Paulsen
(University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Brett Ratcliffe (University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), and Paul Robbins (Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York, USA), Preparation of the checklist was supported,
in part, by NSF/BS&I grant (DEB-0342189), NSF/PEET grant (DEB9712447),
the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and our own resources.
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