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Maechidius opatroides Arrow 1941
Creators
- 1. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW 7 5 BD, London, United Kingdom & Coleopterological Research Center, Institute of Life Sciences and Technology, Daugavpils University, Vienības iela 13, LV – 5401, Daugavpils, Latvia. Institute of Biology, University of Latvia, Miera iela 3, LV – 2169, Salaspils, Latvia
Description
Maechidius opatroides Arrow, 1941 comb. rest.
Maechidius opatroides Arrow, 1941: 454 (original description), 456 (key).
Paramaechidius opatroides – Frey 1969: 504 (key and new combination).
Type material
BMNH (♀ lectotype, 3 ♀♀ paralectotypes).
Distribution
Waigeo of Raja Ampat Islands.
Notes
Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2020, A revision of the Maechidiini Burmeister, 1855 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from the Indo-Australian transition zone, and the first record of the tribe west of Wallace's Line, pp. 1-210 in European Journal of Taxonomy 721 on page 195, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.721.1127, http://zenodo.org/record/4122118
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Maechidius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Arrow
- Species
- opatroides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maechidius opatroides Arrow, 1941 sec. Telnov, 2020
References
- Arrow G. E. 1941. XXIX. - Some undescribed species of melolonthid Coleoptera from Western New Guinea and the adjacent islands of Waigeu and Japen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 11 7 (41): 448 - 464. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745481.1941.9727945
- Frey G. 1969. Revision der Maechidius - Arten Neu-Guineas (Col., Melolonth.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 20: 494 - 509.