IRMNG - Amithao Thomson, 1878

IRMNG taxon details

Amithao Thomson, 1878

IRMNG_ID

1089458 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1089458)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Scarabaeidae Latreille, 1802

Synonymised names

Hologymnia Schoch, 1895 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Melasictes Thomson, 1880 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Amithao albopictum Neervoort Van De Poll, 1886
Species Amithao cavifrons Burmeister, 1842
Species Amithao decemguttatus Waterhouse, 1876
Species Amithao distigma Schoch, 1898
Species Amithao erythropus Burmeister, 1842
Species Amithao haematopus Schaum, 1848
Species Amithao incerta Gory & Percheron, 1833
Species Amithao lafertei Thomson, 1860
Species Amithao metallicum Janson, 1885
Species Amithao niveosparsus Moser, 1913
Species Amithao obscurus Schoch, 1896
Species Amithao pyrrhonotus Burmeister, 1842
Species Amithao sparsus Casey, 1915
Species Amithao spence Gory & Percheron, 1833
Species Amithao staudingeri Schurhoff, 1935
Species Amithao thomsoni Janson, 1878
Species Amithao beinlingi Nonfried, 1894 accepted as Amithao decemguttatus Waterhouse, 1876
Species Amithao insignis Bourgoin, 1912 accepted as Amithao metallicum Janson, 1885
Species Amithao spencei Schaum, 1849 accepted as Amithao spence Gory & Percheron, 1833
Species Amithao splendens Nonfried, 1894 accepted as Amithao erythropus Burmeister, 1842

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Thomson, J. (1878). Typi cetonidarum, suivis de typi molommidarum et de typi nilionidarum Musæi Thomsoniani. E. Deyrolle, Paris, France, 44 pp., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62538r
page(s): 10 [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2021). Amithao Thomson, 1878. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1089458 on 2025-04-20

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 (9)
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original description Thomson, J. (1878). Typi cetonidarum, suivis de typi molommidarum et de typi nilionidarum Musæi Thomsoniani. E. Deyrolle, Paris, France, 44 pp., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62538r
page(s): 10 [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]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

basis of record SN2000 unverified [details]

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

current name source Allsopp, P. G.; Schoolmeesters, P. (2024). All genera of the world: Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae and Cetoniinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). <em>Megataxa.</em> 12(1): 1-103., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.12.1.1 [details]

extant flag source SN2000 unverified [details]

habitat flag source as per family [details]

original description (of Melasictes Thomson, 1880) Thomson, J. (1880). Diagnoses de genres nouveaux de la famille des cétonides. <em>Le Naturaliste.</em> 2(34): 268-269., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33928677
page(s): 268 [details]

original description (of Hologymnia Schoch, 1895) Schoch, G. (1895). Die Genera und Species meiner Cetonidensammlung. I. Teil: Trib. Goliathidae, Gymnetidae, Madagassae, Schizorrhinidae. E. Zwingli, Zurich, Switzerland. 63 pp., available online at https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-72711
page(s): 28 [details]

To BioNames database (from synonym Hologymnia Schoch, 1895)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Hologymnia Schoch, 1895)