Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876

Costa-Silva, Vinícius, Strümpher, Werner P., Thyssen, Patricia J. & Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z., 2024, Taxonomic revision of the South American genus Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae), Journal of Natural History 58 (1 - 4), pp. 14-166 : 29

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2023.2260060
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10818508
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C90C8792-FFD4-FFF1-CAC4-FDD9FBF3FBCE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876
status

Treatment

Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876 View in CoL View at ENA

Trox (Polynoncus) Burmeister 1876: 264 (pro parte); Preudhomme de Borre 1886: 59 (identification key and checklist); Arrow 1912: 53; Scholtz 1982: 15 (catalogue)

Polynoncus View in CoL : Scholtz 1986a: 362 (systematics); Scholtz 1990: 1419 (revision); Diéguez 2008: 13 (new species and notes); Gómez 2008: 514 (identification key); Zidek 2013: 6 (checklist); Strümpher et al. 2014: 549 (systematics); Strümpher et al. 2016: 73 (overview); Zidek 2017: 97 (checklist); Huchet and Costa-Silva 2018: 554 (new species); Costa-Silva and Diéguez 2020: 268 View Cited Treatment (new species and checklist), Mondaca 2023: 209 (checklist from Chile)

Type species

Trox pedestris Harold, 1872 View in CoL , by subsequent designation by Scholtz (1982, p. 15).

Etymology

From the Greek ‘πολύ/poly’ (= many, very) and ‘όΓΚος/ónkos’ (= tumor, volume) ( Brown 1954), in reference to the elytral tubercles found in the majority of Trogidae species.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
SuperFamily	Scarabaeoidea
Family	Trogidae