Meladema

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Dytiscidae
Subfamilia: Colymbetinae
Tribus: Colymbetini
Genus: Meladema
Species (4): M. coriacea – M. imbricata – M. lanio – M. lepidoptera
Name

Meladema Laporte, 1835 [conserved name]

Gender: feminine.

Type species: Meladema coriacea Laporte, 1835, by monotypy.

Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1725.

Synonyms

Scutopterus Dejean, 1833: 54 (as "Scutopterus. Eschscholtz.") [suppressed name]
Type species: Dytiscus lanio Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation by Nilsson et al., 1989: 307.
Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 1725.

References
Primary references

Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1833. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Deuxième édition. [Livraison 1 (pp. 1–96), Livraison 2 (pp. 97–176)]. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils. [pp. 177–256, Livraison 3 was published in 1834; pp. 257–360, Livraison 4 in 1835; pp. 361–442, Livraison 5 in 1836]. BHL. Reference page.
ICZN. 1993. Opinion 1725. Meladema Laporte, 1835 (Insecta, Coleoptera): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 50(2): 169–170. BHL. Reference page.
Laporte 1835 Études Entom., (2) 98.

Additional references

Bilton, D.T. & Ribera, I. 2017. A revision of Meladema diving beetles (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae), with the description of a new species from the central Mediterranean based on molecules and morphology. ZooKeys 702: 45—112. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.702.14787. Reference page.
Ribera, I., Bilton, D.T. & Cardoso, A. 2018. The Meladema Laporte, 1835 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) of the Sahara Desert. Zootaxa 4399(1): 119–122. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.7 Reference page.
Ribera, I.; Bilton, D.T.; Vogler, A.P. 2003: Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography and population history of Meladema diving beetles on the Atlantic Islands and in the Mediterranean basin (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae). Molecular ecology, 12(1): 153–167. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.01711.x PDF

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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Meladema Laporte de Castelnau, 1835 Taxon details on Fauna Europaea

Meladema is a genus of beetles in family Dytiscidae. It contains the following species (among others):[1]

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

References

Dytiscidae Species List Archived July 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine at Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Retrieved on 7 May 2012.