Genus Phaleria Latreille, 1802

Phaleria Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [162].
Type species:
Tenebrio cadaverinus Fabricius, 1792 by subsequent designation, see Melville, R.V. 1975. Opinion 1039. Uloma Dejean, 1821 and Phaleria Latreille, 1802 (Insecta Coleoptera): designation of type-species under the plenary powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 32: 136-138 [136].
Phalerisida Kulzer, H. 1959. Neue Tenebrioniden aus Südamerika (Col.). 18 Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Tenebrioniden. Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 10: 523-567 [563].
Type species:
Phalerisida maculata Kulzer, 1959 by monotypy (from Chile).
Atahualpina Español, F. 1960. Un nuevo tipo de tenebriónido sabulícola de las costas del Peru. Publicaciones del Instituto de Biología Aplicada (Barcelona) 31: 113-117 [113].
Type species:
Atahualpina peruviana Español, 1960 by monotypy (from Peru).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Triplehorn, C.A. 1991. A review of the genus Phaleria Latreille from the Western Hemisphere (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Phaleriinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 45: 258-270 [258] (Phalerisida Kulzer, Atahualpina Español)

History of changes

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Species Phaleria bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Dytiscus bimaculata Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [667].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (not located), Europe.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Europe (probably).

General References

Gebien, H. 1942. [1938-1942] Katalog der Tenebrioniden. Teil II. Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 28(1938), 370-465; 29(1939), 466-529; 30(1940), 530-625; 31(1941), 626-705; 32(1942), 706-744. [499] (17 synonyms)

History of changes

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		01-May-2014	MODIFIED