Revision of the genusAmadotrogusReitter, 1902 (n. stat.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
| Autor: | María Milagro Coca-Abia, F. Martin-Piera |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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| Zdroj: | Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.). 38:351-362 |
| ISSN: | 2168-6351 0037-9271 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00379271.2002.10697349 |
| Popis: | In this paper, the subgenus Amadotrogus Reitter, 1902 and its taxonomic status as a subordinate taxon of genus Amphimallon are reviewed. Two kinds of character sets are discussed; those relative to the external morphology of the adult and those of the male and female genitalia. Subgenus Amadotrogus is compared with its recognized allied genera in the same clade (Coca-Abia 1995) Amphimallon Berthold, 1827; Geotrogus Guerin, 1842; Monotropus Erichson, 1847; Pseudoapeterogyna Escalera, 1914 and Rhizotrogus Berthold, 1827 to asses the realtionships of these taxa. Phylogenetic analysis discloses that Amadotrogus, considered to be a subgenus of Amphimallon, has synapomorphic characters which justify its elevation to generic rank. Thus, genus Amadotrogus includes seven species distributed across the Northern Mediterranean basin. The type species, Amadotrogus quercanus (Burmeister, 1855), and six others, transferred from genus Rhizotrogus: Amadotrogus grassii (Mainardi, 1902), Amadotrogus insubricus (Bur... |
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