A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Melolonthinae) genus Liparetrus

Britton, E. B.

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“…Most of the tribes and almost all of the genera must have evolved after the separation of the Australian block from the rest of the land world during the Jurassic (Britton, 1957). The Scitalini follow this model, with only Gnaphalopoda represented outside Australia and then only in New Zealand and New Caledonia.…”

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Biogeography of the Australian Dynastinae, Rutelinae, Scarabaeinae, Melolonthini, Scitalini and Geotrupidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)

Allsopp¹

1995

Journal of Biogeography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Wiley-Blackwell is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of Biogeography.Abstract The relationships between faunas in seventeen areas of Australia were examined for the Dynastinae, Rutelinae, the scarabaeine Coprini, Onthophagini and Scarabaeini, the melolonthine Melolonthini and Scitalini, and Geotrupidae. The distributions of the Rutelinae, Coprini, Onthophagini, Scarabaeini, Melolonthini and Scitalini show strong divisions between the Torresian and Kosciuskan subregions with a slight division of the latter into winter and summer rainfall areas. The Torresian subregion is more strongly separated from the Timorian in the Coprini and Scarabaeini than in the Rutelinae, Onthophagini and Scitalini. The Southwestern subregion shows little relationship to the eastern faunas, but has loose associations with the Eyrean faunas. In the Dynastinae, the major division separates the eastern fauna from the northern, western and inland faunas. Within the east there is a strong winter-summer rainfall division. There is no evidence of a distinct Timorian fauna, or of separate Southwestern and Eyrean subregions. The Geotrupidae shows a distinct separation of the southeastern fauna from those of the northeastern and Torresian-Timorian subregions. Only in the Geotrupidae is there a significant exponential increase in the number of species in an area with increasing size of the area. Differences between groups are attributed to differences in their dependence on plants and vertebrates, their tendency to disperse as adults, their age and dispersal history, and their inherent ability to colonize arid areas.

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Biogeography of the Australian Dynastinae, Rutelinae, Scarabaeinae, Melolonthini, Scitalini and Geotrupidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)

Allsopp¹

1995

Journal of Biogeography

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“…Liogenys species, as well as most of the Melolonthinae, are root-feeding as larvae, while adults feed on leaves and exhibit nocturnal activity (Gutiérrez 1951, Britton 1957, Morón et al 1997, Evans 2002, Morón 2004). Biezanko et al (1949) mentioned adults of L. densicollis damaging corn in Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).…”

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A taxonomic revision of Liogenys occurring in Brazil with an interactive key and remarks on New World Diplotaxini (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae)

Cherman

Mise

Morón

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Liogenys Guérin-Méneville, 1831 is the major genus of Neotropical Diplotaxini, with 78 species distributed from Panama to southern Argentina and Chile, except for Ecuador. Due to the large numbers of both described and undescribed species, as well as its agricultural importance, mainly of those in Brazil, Liogenys was redefined and redescribed. Nine new species are described: L. cavifrons Cherman, sp. n., L. femella Cherman, sp. n., L. piauiensis Cherman, sp. n., L. rotundicollis Cherman, sp. n., L. pseudosanctaecrucis Cherman, sp. n., L. grossii Cherman, sp. n., L. pseudospiniventris Cherman, sp. n., L. sulcoventris Cherman, sp. n., and L. freyi Cherman, sp. n. All the new species are Brazilian, except for the last one, which is Argentinian. Twenty-three Brazilian species are redescribed and illustrated. Five new synonyms are proposed, and 19 lectotypes are designated. New geographical distribution records for 19 species are presented, as well as a key to New World Diplotaxini and Brazilian species of Liogenys.

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“…There are currently about 750 genera and 11000 species recorded worldwide (Houston & Weir 1992), but many taxa still await description, especially in the tropics. Britton (1957Britton ( , 1978Britton ( , 1980Britton ( , 1986Britton ( , 1987Britton ( , 1988Britton ( , 1990Britton ( , 1995Britton ( a, 1995Britton ( b, 2000 revised the Australian fauna. For more information on distribution of Melolonthinae see also Potts (1974), Evans (1987Evans ( a, 1987Evans ( b, 1987Evans ( c, 1988Evans ( , 1989, Sabatinelli (1992), Lacroix (1993, 1998), Szito (1993, Ahrens (1995Ahrens ( , 1999Ahrens ( , 2000, Ahrens & Sabatinelli (1996), Howden (1997), Moron et al (1997), Coca Abia & Martin-Piera (1998), Sabatinelli & Pontuale (1998), Li Chun Lin & Yang Ping Shih (1999, Bezdek et al (1999), Nikolajev (2000, and Moron (2001).…”

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13. Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802

Scholtz¹,

Grebennikov²

2005

Band 4: Arthropoda, 2. Hälfte: Insecta, Coleoptera, Beetles, Teilband/Part 38, Volume 1: Morphology and Systematics (Archostema

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A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Melolonthinae) genus Liparetrus

Cited by 17 publications

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Biogeography of the Australian Dynastinae, Rutelinae, Scarabaeinae, Melolonthini, Scitalini and Geotrupidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)

Biogeography of the Australian Dynastinae, Rutelinae, Scarabaeinae, Melolonthini, Scitalini and Geotrupidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)

A taxonomic revision of Liogenys occurring in Brazil with an interactive key and remarks on New World Diplotaxini (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae)

13. Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802

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