IRMNG - Meladema Laporte, 1835

IRMNG taxon details

Meladema Laporte, 1835

IRMNG_ID

1444550 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1444550)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Dytiscidae Leach, 1815

Synonymised names

Scutopterus Aubé in Dejean & Boisduval, 1836 · unaccepted (Later use of Scutopterus Dejean, 1833)

Scutopterus Dejean, 1833 · unaccepted (Name suppressed)

Scytopterus Agassiz, 1846 · unaccepted (Unjustified emendation)

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Species Meladema coriacea Laporte de Castelnau, 1835
Species Meladema imbricata (Wollaston, 1871)
Species Meladema lanio (Fabricius, 1775)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Laporte, F.L. (1834-1835). Etudes entomologiques, ou description d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur leur synonymie. Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils, Paris 1-94 (1834), 95-159 (1835)., available online at https://books.google.ca/books?id=LTGOmPXvb10C
page(s): 98 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Meladema Laporte, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1444550 on 2024-04-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

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Sources (11)
Notes (1)

original description Laporte, F.L. (1834-1835). Etudes entomologiques, ou description d'insectes nouveaux et observations sur leur synonymie. Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils, Paris 1-94 (1834), 95-159 (1835)., available online at https://books.google.ca/books?id=LTGOmPXvb10C
page(s): 98 [details]

basis of record SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

verified source for family Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012). [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

current name source Hallan, J. (2000-2017). Biology Catalog (2012 version), http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (as at 2012). [details]

extant flag source SN2000 unverified/Stang, 2004-present [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Scutopterus Aubé in Dejean & Boisduval, 1836) in Dejean & Boisduval, Icon. Col., 5
page(s): 94 [details]

original description (of Scutopterus Dejean, 1833) Dejean, P.F.M.A. (1833-1836). <em>Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean.</em> Méquignon-Marvis, Paris. iv+443 pp. [(1):1-96, 19 January 1833; (2):97-176, 27 July 1833; (3):177-256, for nomenclatural purposes, 30 June 1834; (4):257–360, 22 August 1835; (5):361–443, for nomenclatural purposes, 31 December 1836]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/36609
page(s): 54; note: as Scutopterus. Eschscholtz [details]

original description (of Scytopterus Agassiz, 1846) Agassiz, L. (1846). Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis. Jent & Gassman. viii + 393 pp. [1847]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33664307 [details]

From other sources

Descriptive info type species is Meladema coriacea Laporte 1835 p.98 (Hallan, 2000-) [details]