Larval morphology of some Anisopliini grain beetles with a key to their larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Rutelidae: Anomalinae)

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Abstract. The third instar larvae of three Anisoplia species, Anisoplia baetica Erichson, 1847, Anisoplia depressa Erichson, 1847 and Anisoplia remota Reitter, 1889 are described and illustrated to show the diagnostic characters of the species. The third instar larva of the monospecific genus Anthoplia, represented by Anthoplia floricola (F., 1787) is also described and illustrated. These four species are included in a revised key to the larvae of Anisopliini, which now includes four genera, and ten species. The taxonomic status of Anthoplia based on the larval morphology, is discussed.

A Review of the Family-group Names for the Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) with Corrections to Nomenclature and a Current Classification

“…Therefore, I invoke Article 23.9.2 and provide evidence that Anomalina has be used as a valid name in at least 25 works, published by at least 10 authors in the immediately preceding 50 years and encompassing a span of not less than 10 years. In compliance with the requirements of the Code, the following list of qualified publications, in chronological order, used Anomalina (or this stem with any other family-group suffix) as a valid family-group name, which is sufficient evidence that it is in prevailing usage : Ritcher 1966;Howden and Hardy 1971;Machatschke 1971;Machatschke 1972;Machatschke 1973a;Machatschke 1973b;Woodruff 1973;Potts 1974;Potts 1977a;Potts 1977b;Jameson 1990;Ratcliffe 1991;Bader 1992;Cassis and Weir 1992;Moró n 1997;Browne and Scholtz 1998;Jameson 1998;Harpootlian 2001;Micó , Verdú , and Galante 2001;Moró n and Howden 2001;Ratcliffe, Jameson, and Smith 2002;Jameson, Paucar-Cabrera, and Solís 2003;Micó , Moró n, and Galante 2003;Jameson and Hawkins 2005…”

13. Scarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802

“…Epipharyngeal tormae not fused, asymmetrical. Larvae were described by Ratcliffe (1976 b), Moron (1995), Perissinotto et al (1999), Mico et al (2000), Mico, Hall & Ratcliffe (2001), and Mico, Verdu & Galante (2001).…”

Description of the larvae ofDicronocephalus wallichi bourgoiniColeoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) with observations on nesting behavior and life cycle of twoDicronocephalusspecies under laboratory conditions

“…Th e material is deposited in the collections of Charles University in Prague. Th e morphological terminology used in the present study is adopted from Hayes (1929), Böving (1936), Ritcher (1966), Sawada (1991) and Micó et al (2001). Hair-like setae were classifi ed according to their relative size into four groups: long, medium long, short, minute (fi gs 12a-d).…”