Meloe tuccia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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: Meloidae
Subfamilia: Meloinae
Tribus: Meloini
Genus: Meloe
Subgenus Meloe (Eurymeloe)
Species: Meloe tuccia
Subspecies: M. t. corrosus – M. t. tuccia

Meloe tuccia Rossi, ["1790"]

Type locality: Italy ("Etrusca")

Type material:

Meloe tuccia Rossi, ["1790"]: 238 Tab.IV, fig.5 [also index XII]; Rossi, 1792: 134. (Original combination) (Note: Later work cites earlier "F.E. t.1. p. 238. $. 591; Meloe Tuccia ,,Adde,,"); Bologna in Iwan & Löbl, 2020: 546 (as 1792, citing p."290")
Meloe tuccius [sic] Rossi, ["1790"]; Bologna in Löbl & Smetana, 2008: 399 [e.g. see also Di Giulio et al. 2013: 244 "Revision of first instar larvae of Meloe" etc.]. (Note: Subsequent [mis]spelling, erroneous inflection of suffix if interpret as invariant noun)

(Note, see also ruficornis Balbi, 1897: 94, listed as a junior synonym by Bologna in Iwan & Löbl, 2020).

Bologna, M.A. 2008. Meloidae, pp. 370–412. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5. Tenebrionoidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. DOI: 10.1163/9789004260900_011 . Reference page.
Bologna, M.A. 2020. Meloidae, pp. 500–562. In: Iwan, D. & Löbl, I. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 5. Tenebrionoidea. Revised and Updated Second Edition. Brill. xxiv, 945 pp. DOI: 10.1163/9789004434998. . ISBN 978-90-04-43499-8. Google Books. Reference page.
Rossi, P. 1790. Fauna Etrusca sistens insecta quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit. Vol. 1. 272 pp. Liburni: Thomae Masi & Sociorum. BHL Reference page.
Rossi, P. 1792. Mantissa insectorum, exhibens species nuper in Etruria collectas, adiectis faunae etruscae illustrationibus, ac emendationibus. 1: 1–148. Pisis: Polloni. BHL Reference page.

Iwan, D. & Löbl, I. 2020. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 5. Tenebrionoidea. Revised and Updated Second Edition. Brill. xxiv, 945 pp. DOI: 10.1163/9789004434998. . ISBN 978-90-04-43499-8. Google Books. Reference page.