Stethaspini

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: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Melolonthinae
Tribus: Stethaspini
Genera (11): Chariochilus – Colymbomorpha – Exostethus – Nitorellus – Phyllococerus – Phytholaema – Pyronota – Stethaspis – Xylonichus – ?Mycernus – ?Psilodontria
Name

Stethaspini Burmeister, 1855. Type genus: Stethaspis Hope, 1837.
Synonyms

Xylonichini Britton, 1957. Type genus: Xylonichus Boisduval, 1835.

References

Britton, E.B. 1979: New Australian Melolonthinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 18: 193–197.
Smith, A.B.T. 2002: Revision of the southern South American endemic genus Aulacopalpus Guérin-Méneville with phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses of the subtribe Brachysternina (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Anoplognathini). Coleopterists bulletin, 56: 379–437. DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2002)056[0379:ROTSSA]2.0.CO;2 PDF

Links

Australian Faunal Directory [as Xylonychini]