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Empecta cuprea Blanchard 1850

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Empecta cuprea Blanchard, 1850

Empecta cuprea Blanchard, 1850: 153; Gemminger and Harold, 1869: 1162 (catalogue); Künckel d’Herculais, 1887: pl. 16; Brenske, 1891: 98; Dalla Torre, 1912: 168 (catalogue); Dewailly, 1950: 252; Lacroix, 1989: 61

Hoplochelus cupreus: Alluaud, 1900: 267

Empecta dispersa Dewailly, 1950: 237 (type locality: "Périnet; Favonavo"); Lacroix, 1989: 61 (syn. of E. cuprea)

Type locality: " Madagascar ".

Distribution: Madagascar (Blanchard, 1850, Dewailly, 1950; Lacroix, 1989).

Notes

Published as part of Bezdĕk, Aleš, 2004, Catalogue of Diplotaxini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) of the Old World, pp. 1-90 in Zootaxa 463 (1) on page 61, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.463.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5028548

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Melolonthidae
Genus
Empecta
Species
cuprea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Empecta cuprea Blanchard, 1850 sec. Bezdĕk, 2004

References

  • Blanchard, E. (1850) Museum diHistoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection Entomologique. Classe des Insectes, Ordre des Coleopteres. Gide et Baudry, Paris, pp. 129 - 240.
  • Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. von (1869) Scarabaeidae. Catalogus Coleopterorum Hucusquae Descriptorum Synonymicus et Systematicus. Vol. 4. E. H. Gummi, Monachii, pp. 979 - 1346.
  • Kunckel d'Herculais, J. (1887) Histoire naturelle des coleopteres. 2, 1: Atlas. In: Grandidier, A. (Ed.) Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Vol. 22. Imprimerie National, Paris, 25 plates.
  • Brenske, E. (1891) Ueber die Gattungen Encya und Empecta in: Historie physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar; publiee par Alfred Grandidier. - Vol. XXII. hist. nat. des Coleopteres par M. Kunckel d'Herculais. tom II. Atlas. Paris 1887. Societas Entomologica, 6 (13), 97 - 98.
  • Dalla Torre, K. W. von (1912) Fam. Scarabaeidae. Subfam. Melolonthidae. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (Eds.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. XX, pars 49. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 135 - 209.
  • Dewailly, P. (1950) Coleopteres Melolonthini de Madagascar. Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Serie A, 4, 209 - 453.
  • Lacroix, M. (1989) Insectes Coleopteres Melolonthidae (1 - re partie). Faune de Madagascar 73 (1). Museum national diHistoire naturelle, Paris, 302 pp.
  • Alluaud, C. (1900) Histoire naturelle des coleopteres. 1, 1: Liste des insectes coleopteres de la region Malgache. In: Grandidier, A. (Ed.), Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Vol. 21. Imprimerie National, Paris, viii + 509 pp.