Genus Meryx Latreille, 1807

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• Meryx Latreille, P.A. 1807. Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in famlias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimus explicita. Koenig : Parisiis et Argentorati Vol. 3 258 pp. [17].

  Type species:

   Meryx rugosa Latreille, 1807 by monotypy.
• Rhyssopera Pascoe, F.P. 1860. Notices of new or little-known genera and species of Coleoptera. Part II. Journal of Entomology 1: 98-132 pls v-viii [Date published Oct. 1860] [98].

  Type species:

   Rhyssopera areolata Pascoe, 1860 by method unknown.Rhyssopera areolata Pascoe, 1860 by included Species.Rhyssoptera illota Pascoe, 1860 by included Species.
• Rhyssoptera Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. von 1868. Catalogus Coleopterum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Histeridae, Phalacridae, Nitidulidae, Trogositidae, Colydidae, Rhysodidae, Cucujidae, Cryptophagidae, Derodontidae, Latrididae, Othnidae, Mycetophagidae, Thorictidae, Dermestidae, Byrrhidae, Georyssidae, parnidae, Heteroceridae, Lucanidae. Monachii : E.H. Gummi Vol. 3 pp. 753-978. [856] [emendation].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gerstaecker, A. 1862. Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen im Gebiete der Entomologie wahrend des Jahres 1861. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 28: 273-571 [359] (synonymised Rhyssopera with Meryx)

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