Apogonia Kirby, 1819

Bezdĕk, Aleš, 2004, Catalogue of Diplotaxini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) of the Old World, Zootaxa 463 (1), pp. 1-90 : 5

Genus Apogonia Kirby, 1819

Apogonia Kirby, 1819: 401 (imprint 1818); Burmeister, 1855: 254; Lacordaire, 1856: 276; Gemminger and Harold, 1869: 1155 (catalogue); Ritsema, 1891: 93 (catalogue); Ritsema, 1896d: 55 (catalogue); Péringuey, 1904: 289 (key); Ritsema, 1904b: 111 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 135 (catalogue), Ritsema, 1912: 128 (catalogue); Wu, 1937: 1023 (catalogue); Sawada, 1940: 269 (key); Burgeon, 1945: 2 (key), 3 (key); Medvedev, 1951: 226; Sabatinelli, 1993: 600 (catalogue); Yu et al., 1998: 214 (key)

Type species: Apogonia gemellata Kirby, 1819 (= A. rauca ( Fabricius, 1781)) ; by monotypy.

Distribution: The majority of species is distributed in the Oriental and Ethiopian regions. Several species reach the south­eastern part of Palaearctic region ( China, Korea, and Japan), and one species was described from eastern Iran. Surprisingly, the genus Apogonia has recently been recorded from Asiatic Turkey ( Keith, 2001), but without identification of particular species.

Remark. Although the publication in which the name Apogonia first appeared was dated 1818, it was not published until July 1819 (see Raphael, 1970).