Peter Geoffrey Allsopp

Peter Geoffrey Allsopp (1951–), Australian entomologist.

Author abbreviation: P.G.Allsopp

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Allsopp, P.G. 1989. Two new species of Lepidiota Kirby (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from Australia with notes on L. noxia Britton. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 28: 39–43. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1989.tb01190.x. Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 1990a. Two new species and new distribution records of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 44: 217–223. Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. 1990b. Sexual dimorphism in the adult antennae of Antitrogus parvulus Britton and Lepidiota negatoria Blackburn (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 29: 261–266. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1990.tb00360.x. . Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 1993a. Antitrogus costai, a new chafer beetle from central Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthini). Israel Journal of Zoology 39: 193–196. Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. 1993b. Antitrogus villosus sp. n. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from western Victoria. Australian Entomologist 20: 153–155. Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. 1993c. Identity of canegrubs attributed to Antitrogus mussoni (Blackburn) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 47: 195–201. Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. 1993d. Evidence for sex attraction in three species of Australian canegrub beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 47: 51–52. Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 2000. Revision of the Australian genus Anomalomorpha Arrow (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) with a new species from the wet tropics of Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46: 1–7. Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 2017. Siegius, a replacement name for Bilobatus Sieg, 1993 (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Apseudidae), preoccupied by Bilobatus Machatschke, 1970 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae). Zootaxa 4317(3): 584–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.9. Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 2018. Alepida, a new genus for seven Australian species attributed to Lepidiota Kirby, 1828 and one new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Melolonthini). Australian Entomologist 45: 441–464. Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. & Hudson, P.J. 2019. Novapus bifidus Carne, 1957, a primary homonym and synonym of Novapus bifidus Lea, 1910 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). Zootaxa 4560(3): 576–578. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.9 Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 2020. Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): a second species of Hypolepida Britton, 1978. Zootaxa 4742(3): 595–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4742.3.13. . Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. 2020. Clarification of the status of types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950. Zootaxa 4885(4): 451–486. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1 Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. & Hutchinson, P.M. 2020. Niuailan, a new genus to accommodate Carneoryctes peterseni (Endrodi, 1967) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini) from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4860(1): 135–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.1.8 Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 2021. The Australian endemic genera Mesystoechus Waterhouse, 1878, Amblochilus Blanchard, 1851 and Bilobatus Machatschke, 1970 revisited (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Schizognathina). Zootaxa 4965(2): 363–374. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.2.9 Reference page.
Hutchinson, P.M. & Allsopp, P.G. 2021. Revision of Anomalomorpha Arrow, 1908 and Enracius Dechambre, 1999, with Erbmahcedius new genus from southeastern Australia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini: Cheiroplatina). Zootaxa 5072(5): 439–462. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5072.5.2. . Reference page.
Hutchinson, P.M. & Allsopp, P.G. 2021a. Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): a sixth species of Pseudholophylla Blackburn, 1911, and notes on the other known species. Zootaxa 5082(1): 030–040. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.1.3. . Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. 2022. Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): reclassification of eight species to Antitrogus Burmeister, 1855 and Barryfilius new genus. Zootaxa 5213(5): 513–545. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.5.3. . Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G., Jákl, S. & Rey, A. 2023. Replacement names for three preoccupied genus-group names of Cetoniinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Zootaxa 5296(4): 595–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.4.9 . Reference page.

Allsopp, P.G. & Schoolmeesters, P. 2024. All genera of the world: Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae and Cetoniinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Megataxa 012(1): 001–103. DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.1 Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. & Schoolmeesters, P. 2024. All genera of the world: Subfamilies Prototroginae, Cretoscarabaeinae, Dynamopodinae, Electrorubesopsinae, Phaenomeridinae, Orphninae, Allidiostomatinae, Aclopinae, Lichniinae, Melolonthinae, Oncerinae, Podolasiinae, Sericinae, Sericoidinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Megataxa 12(1): 104-175. DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.12.1.2 Reference page.
Allsopp, P.G. & Schoolmeesters, P. 2024. Resolution of some nomenclatural issues in the Cetoniinae, Dynastinae, Hopliinae, Melolonthinae, Pachydeminae and Sericinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Zootaxa 5433(4):573–580. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.4.6

Allsopp, P.G. & Schoolmeesters, P. 2026. All genera of the world: Families Alloioscarabaeidae, Septiventeridae, Lucanidae, Trogidae, Glaresidae, Pleocomidae, Bolboceratidae, Diphyllostomatidae, Geotrupidae, Passalopalpidae, Passalidae, Belohinidae, Ochodaeidae, Glaphyridae, and Hybosoridae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Megataxa 019(2): 217–269. DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.19.2.1 Reference page.

Peter G. Allsopp. Scarab Workers. Division of Entomology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum.