Agastenes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Tenebrioninae
Tribus: Heleini
Subtribus: Cyphaleina
Genus: Agastenes
Species: A. championi – A. frenchi – A. westwoodi

Name

Agastenes Lucas, 1920 : 79

• Type species: Agasthenes westwoodi Bates, 1873, by monotypy

Synonyms

• Agasthenes Bates, 1873 : 352; junior homonym of Agasthenes Förster, 1869
• Agastenes Lucas, 1920; unjustified emendation of Agasthenes Bates, 1873
• Batessia Ponting, 2018 : 131; unneccessary replacement name for Agasthenes Bates, 1873 because Agastenes Lucas, 1920 available

References

Primary references

• Bates, F. 1873. Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidae from Australia, New Caledonia and Norfolk Island. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 21(3): 347–380. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1873.tb02312.x BHL Reference page. 
• Lucas, R. 1920. Catalogus alphabeticus generum et subgenerum Coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius (famil., trib., subtr., sect. incl.). Pars I. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Abteilung A (Abteilung A) 84 [1918] (1/5): i–xxxi, 1–696. BHL. [also as separate, 1920, Nicolai, Berlin, same pagin.]. Reference page. 
• Ponting, J. 2018. A replacement name for Agasthenes Bates, 1873 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), junior homonym of Agasthenes Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 33(1): 131. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.33(1).2018.131-132

Additional references

• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Aalbu, R.L., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Merkl, O.(†) & Davies, A.E. 2021. Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera). ZooKeys 1050: 1–633. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217 Reference page.