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Melolonthinae  Leach, 1819
Taxonomic Serial No.: 678508

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Subfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2012   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderPolyphaga Emery, 1886  
                                     InfraorderScarabeiformia Crowson, 1960  
                                        SuperfamilyScarabaeoidea Latreille, 1802  
                                           FamilyScarabaeidae Latreille, 1802 – scarab beetles  
                                              SubfamilyMelolonthinae Leach, 1819  
    Direct Children:  
                                                 Tribe Dichelonychini Burmeister, 1855  
                                                 Tribe Diplotaxini Kirby, 1837  
                                                 Tribe Hopliini Latreille, 1829  
                                                 Tribe Lichniini Burmeister, 1844  
                                                 Tribe Macrodactylini Kirby, 1837  
                                                 Tribe Melolonthini Leach, 1819  
                                                 Tribe Oncerini LeConte, 1861  
                                                 Tribe Pachydemini Burmeister, 1855  
                                                 Tribe Podolasiini Howden, 1997  
                                                 Tribe Sericini Kirby, 1837  
       
                                               SubfamilyMelolonthinae Leach, 1819 incertae sedis  
    Children with Uncertain Position:  
                                                 Genus Acoma Casey, 1889  
                                                 Genus Chaunocolus Saylor, 1937  
                                                 Genus Chnaunanthus Burmeister, 1844  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm, website (version 4)  
  Acquired: 2012   
  Notes: Smith, A.B.T. 2009. Checklist and Nomenclatural Authority File of the Scarabaeoidea of the Nearctic Realm. Version 4. Electronically published, Ottawa, Canada. 97 pp., available online at http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/SSSA/nearctic.htm   
  Reference for: Melolonthinae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2011   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: ZooKeys, vol. 88   
  Page(s): 1-972   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1313-2989   
  Notes: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807   
  Reference for: Melolonthinae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
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  Reference for: Melolonthinae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Lawrence and Newton (1995) give the authorship of this species as MacLeay, 1819/Leach in Samouelle, 1819  
 

 

    

 
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