Genus Lepispilus Westwood, 1841

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• Lepispilus Westwood, J.O. 1841. Descriptions of some new genera of Australian heteromerous beetles in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. Arcana Entomologica: or Illustrations of New, Rare, and Interesting Insects 1: 43-44 [44].

  Type species:

   Pachycaelia sulcicollis Boisduval, 1835 by monotypy.
• Pachycoelia Boisduval, J.B.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l' Astrolabe Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, pendent les Années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, sous le Commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'Illustration des Insectes Nouveaux Recueillis pendent le Voyage. Deuxième Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris. [248] [preoccupied].

  Type species:

   Pachycoelia sulcicollis Boisduval, 1835 by monotypy.
• Lepidospilus Agassiz, 1846 [unjustified emendation].
• Tyndarisus Pascoe, F.P. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidae from Australia and Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 29-45, 132-153, 277-296, 344-351 [294].

  Type species:

   Tyndarisus longitarsis Pascoe, 1869 (= Tyndarisus stygianus Pascoe, 1869) by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carter, H.J. 1926. A check list of the Australian Tenebrionidae. The Australian Zoologist 4(3): 117–163 pls xvi-xvii [22 Feb. 1926] [119] (Tyndarisus Pascoe)
• Matthews, E.G & Bouchard, P. 2008. Tenebrionid Beetles of Australia, Descriptions of Tribes, Keys to Genera, Catalogue of Species. Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study 398 pp. [296]

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