Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884

Ahrens, Dirk, 2007, Type species designations of Afrotropical Ablaberini and Sericini genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), Zootaxa 1496, pp. 53-62 : 59-60

Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884

Pseudotrochalus Quendenfeldt, 1884: 301 ; Burgeon 1943: 237; Machatschke 1959: 744; Kolbe 1914: 327.

Type species (here designated): Trochalus sulcipennis Gerstäcker, 1867 .

Originally included nominal species: Pseudotrochalus aereicollis Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus atratus Burmeister, 1855 ; Trochalus breviusculus Fåhraeus, 1857 ; Trochalus chrysomelinus Gerstäcker, 1867 ; Trochalus crassus Fåhraeus, 1857 ; Trochalus falkensteini Kolbe, 1883 ; Trochalus longicornis Burmeister, 1855 ; Pseudotrochalus nigrosericatus Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus obtusus Fåhraeus, 1857 ; Pseudotrochalus quadrisignatus Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus rufobrunneus Kolbe, 1883 ; Trochalus rufolineatus Harold, 1879 ; Pseudotrochalus subtruncatus Quendenfeldt, 1884 ; Trochalus sulcipennis Gerstäcker, 1867 ; and Pseudotrochalus superbus Quendenfeldt, 1884 .

Type material examined ( Pseudotrochalus sulcipennis [Gerstäcker, 1867]); Lectotype (here designated): ɗ "44366 / Type / sulcipennis Gerst. * Endara Decken" ( ZMHB). Paralectotypes: 1 ɗ, 2 ex. (sex unknown) "Endara / Typus / Hist coll. ( Coleoptera ) Nr. 44366 Trochalus sulcipennis Gerst. Endara , v.D. Decken Zool. Mus. Berlin" ( ZMHB).

Remarks: The genus presently includes about 34 species but probably many other species so far assigned to Trochalus Laporte, 1832 should be transferred to Pseudotrochalus . In order to accommodate Pseudotrochalus in the current framework of existing genera in the tribe (principally based also on the works of Brenske and Moser) I selected the type specimen based on taxa present in the ZMHB. Of these taxa, the types of T. sulcipennis were more common and better preserved.