Knysna

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea
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: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Melolonthinae
Tribus: Hopliini
Subtribus: Heterochelina
Genus: Knysna
Species: K. endroedyi – K. heidenreichi – K. humeralis – K. sulcicollis

Name

Knysna Péringuey, 1902

Type species: [?]

(Note: Protologue contains K. humeralis (Burmeister, 1844) and K. sulcicollis (Blanchard, 1850). Allsopp & Schoolmeesters, 2024 (p.115) comment "Erected for two species (Ischnochelus humeralis Burmeister, 1844; Gymnoloma sulcicollis Blanchard, 1850) but no type species designated").

Gender: [?]

Synonymy

Knysna Péringuey, 1902: 799, 857 (Protonym); Allsopp & Schoolmeesters, 2024: 115.

(See junior homonym Knysna Bassi 1999 (Crambidae/Pyralidae, Lepidoptera), replacement name Bassiknysna Kemal & Koçak, 2005).

References

Primary references

Péringuey L.A. 1902. Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae), Sub-families: Rutelinae, Hopliinae. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 12: 563[part]–920, plus plates. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.8963 BHL Archive part 2 Reference page.

Additional references

Dombrow, H.E. 2006a. Two new species of the genus Knysna Peringuey from the Western Cape of the Republic of South Africa. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Hopliini). 28th contribution to the knowledge of African Hopliini. Coleoptera 10: 83–88. 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. [p.115]

Links

Schoolmeesters, P. 2017. Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database (version Jul 2016). In: Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. 2017. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 30th January 2017. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. Reference page. [accessed on March 1, 2017]
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