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Lepanus Balthasar 1966

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Research and Collections Division, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, United States of America. & ngunter @ cmnh. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8355 - 0862
  • 2. Research and Collections Division, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, United States of America. & nsaxton @ cmnh. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5993 - 9782
  • 3. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601, Australia. tom. weir @ csiro. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0053 - 2870

Description

Lepanus Balthasar, 1966

Lepanus Balthasar, 1966: 177. Type species: Lepanus ovatus Balthasar 1966 (by monotypy); Matthews 1974: 100, Gunter & Weir 2019: 41, Gunter et al. 2019a: 459.

Oficanthon Paulian, 1985: 227. Type species: Oficanthon mirabilis Paulian, 1985 (by monotypy); new synonym.

Comments. Oficanthon is a monotypic genus here treated as a synonym of Lepanus. For a generic description of Lepanus refer to Matthews (1974) and Gunter et al. (2019a).

Notes

Published as part of Gunter, Nicole L., Saxton, Natalie A. & Weir, Thomas A., 2022, Oficanthon Paulian, 1985, a junior synonym of Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with redescription of Lepanus mirabilis (Paulian, 1985), pp. 575-584 in Zootaxa 5194 (4) on page 576, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/7156994

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/BA2D166BFFD3C341519D46A78558FB2D

Cites
Taxonomic treatment: 10.5281/zenodo.5922790 (DOI)
Taxonomic treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03832713FFAA8D70A3DAF82350F596E5 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.4.6 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7156994 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/46146E13FFD2C340510A45748666FFE3 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/337BC9FA-3075-4E36-8123-C281CBD1C046 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/BA2D166BFFD3C341519D46A78558FB2D (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/202158346 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/160060/taxon/BA2D166BFFD3C341519D46A78558FB2D.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Balthasar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Lepanus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 sec. Gunter, Saxton & Weir, 2022

References

  • Balthasar, V. (1966) Neue Gattungen und Arten der Scarabaeoidea der australischen und neotropischen Region. Entomologische Blatter, 62, 177 - 185.
  • Matthews, E. G. (1974) A revision of the scarabaeine dung beetles of Australia II. Tribe Scarabaeini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series, 22 (24), 1 - 211. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 024
  • Gunter, N. L. & Weir, T. A. (2019) Revision of Australian species of the dung beetle genus Lepanus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): key to species groups and description of 14 new species from the L. pygmaeus species group. Zootaxa, 4564 (1), 41 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4564.1.2
  • Gunter, N. L., Lemann, K. & Weir, T. A. (2019 a) Scarabaeidae: Scarabeinae Latreille, 1802, In: Slipinski, A. & Lawrence, J. (Eds.), Australian Beetles. Vol. 2. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, 784 pp.
  • Paulian, R. (1985) Les coleopteres Scarabaeidae canthonines de Nouvelle-Guinee. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 21 (2), 219 - 238.