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Maechidius gressitti Frey 1969
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 gressitti Frey, 1969
Maechidius gressitti Frey, 1969: 498 key, 503 (original description).
Type material
BPBM (♂ holotype, 2 paratypes), NHMB (2 paratypes).
Distribution
Southern lowlands of New Guinea (Fly River basin). One paratype specimen from Morobe Province, E Papua New Guinea, is probably misidentified or mislabelled and does not belongs to the type series (see above).
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 189, 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
- Frey
- Species
- gressitti
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maechidius gressitti Frey, 1969 sec. Telnov, 2020
References
- Frey G. 1969. Revision der Maechidius - Arten Neu-Guineas (Col., Melolonth.). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 20: 494 - 509.