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Phanaeus Macleay, 1819

Moctezuma, Victor & Halffter, Gonzalo, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Phanaeus endymion species group (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), with the descriptions of five new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 747, pp. 1-71 : 5-6

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Genus Phanaeus Macleay, 1819 View in CoL

Phanaeus Macleay, 1819: 124 View in CoL .

Lonchophorus Germar, 1824: 106 View in CoL .

Phaneus Castelnau, 1840: 79 .

Onthurgus Gistel, 1857: 90 View in CoL .

Palaeocopris Pierce, 1946: 130 View in CoL .

Phanaeus View in CoL – Brullé 1837: 302. — Dejean 1844: 155. — Agassiz 1846: 818. — Lacordaire 1856: 100. — Gemminger & Harold 1869: 1016. — Lacordaire & Chapuis 1876: 276. — Bates 1887: 387. — Nevinson 1892: 1. — Gillet 1911: 81. — Lucas 1920: 499. — Dawson 1922: 61. — Olsoufieff 1924: 22. — Pessôa 1934: 282. — Balthasar 1939: 238. — Pessôa & Lane 1941: 470. — Islas 1942: 303. — Blackwelder 1944 –1957: 209. — Halffter 1952: 79; 1955: 79. — Roze 1955: 45. — Martínez 1959: 97. — Halffter & Matthews 1966: 258. — Vulcano & Pereira 1967: 566. — Edmonds 1972: 740; 1979: 99; 1994: 8; 2003: 11; 2004: 119; 2006: 31. — Edmonds & Halffter 1978: 321. — Howden & Young 1981: 12. — Arnaud 1982: 114; 2001: 2; 2002a: 2; 2002b: 13; 2018: 3. — Halffter & Edmonds 1982: 136. — Medina & Lopera 2000: 303. — Vítolo 2000: 595. — Medina et al. 2001: 140. — Ratcliffe 2002: 16. — Philips et al. 2004: 50. — Price 2005: 197; 2007: 1; 2009: 137. — Hamel-Leigue et al. 2006: 17; 2009: 64. — Krajcik 2006: 148. — Gillett et al. 2010: 2 — Vaz-de-Mello et al. 2011: 25. — Edmonds & Zídek 2012: 1 View Cited Treatment . — Solís & Kohlmann 2012: 7. — Cancino-López et al. 2014: 140. — Figueroa et al. 2014: 133. — Manjarres-H & Molano-R 2015: 246. — Pacheco & Vaz-de-Mello 2015: 1. — Halffter & Morrone 2017: 19. — Lizardo et al. 2017: 271. — Moctezuma & Halffter 2017: 47. — Moctezuma et al. 2017: 114; 2019: 249; 2020: 3. — Chamorro et al. 2018: 75; 2019: 210. — Kohlmann et al. 2018: 67. — Gillett & Toussaint 2020: 2.

Lonchophorus View in CoL – Brullé 1837: 302 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Agassiz 1846: 620. — Lacordaire 1856: 100 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Gemminger & Harold 1869: 1016 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Nevinson 1892: 1 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Gillet 1911: 81 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Lucas 1920: 381 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Olsoufieff 1924: 140 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Blackwelder 1944 –1957: 209 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Martínez 1959: 97 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Edmonds 1972: 826 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ); 1994: 46 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Ratcliffe 2002: 16 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Krajcik 2006: 148 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Solís & Kohlmann 2012: 7 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Figueroa et al. 2014: 133 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Chamorro et al. 2019: 210 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ).

Onthurgus View in CoL – Edmonds 1972: 827 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ); 1994: 46 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Ratcliffe 2002: 16 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Krajcik 2006: 148 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Solís & Kohlmann 2012: 7 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Figueroa et al. 2014: 133 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Chamorro et al. 2019: 210 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ).

Palaeocopris View in CoL – Edmonds 1972: 855; 1994: 46 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Miller et al. 1981: 1 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Ratcliffe 2002: 16 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Solís & Kohlmann 2012: 7 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ). — Chamorro et al. 2019: 210 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ).

Phaneus – Krajcik 2006: 148 (as synonym of Phanaeus View in CoL ).

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Specimens