Metapogonia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda 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: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Melolonthinae
Tribus: Diplotaxini
Genus: Metapogonia
Species: (11) M. bayeri – M. brunoi – M. elgonensis – M. kaszabi – M. mediocris – M. parvula – M. platypus – M. platypyge – M. pusilla – M. snizeki – M. zambesiana

Name

Metapogonia Lacroix, 2008

Synonyms

• Metagonia Kolbe, 1899 [nec Metagonia Simon, 1893]
  • Metapogonia Lacroix, 2008
  • Bezdekia Özdikmen & Demir, 2008 [nec Bezdekia Warchalowski, 2005]

References

• Lacroix, M. 2008: Contribution à la connaissance des Melolonthinae africains, I. Nouveaux genres et nouvelles espèces du complexe Apogonia Kirby, 1819 (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae). Coléoptères, 14: 67–98.
• Bezděk, A. 2020. Metapogonia snizeki sp. nov. and a previously unknown female of M. elgonensis (Burgeon, 1945) (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae, Diplotaxini). ZooKeys, 963: 131–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.963.54714 Reference page. 
• Lacroix, M.; Bezděk, A. 2009: Battle of two replacement names for the genus Metagonia Kolbe, 1899 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Zootaxa, 2237: 67–68. Abstract & excerpt
• Özdikmen, H.; Demir, H. 2008: Replacement names for two preoccupied beetle genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Entomological news, 119: 315–317. DOI: 10.3157/0013-872X(2008)119[315:RNFTPB]2.0.CO;2
• Warchałowski, A. 2005. Bezdekia tenebrosa, new Palaearctic genus and species of the subfamily Eumolpinae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Annales Zoologici 55(2): 303–304. DOI: 10.3161/000345405775008282 [nonfunctional] . Abstract. Reference page. 

Links

• ION search for Metapogonia
• ION search for Metagonia
• ION search for Bezdekia
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Metapogonia
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Metagonia
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Bezdekia 21:32, 21 September 2009 (UTC)]

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