Genus Rhyzobius Stephens, 1829

Museums

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• Rhyzobius Stephens, J.F. 1829. A systematic catalogue of British Insects: being an attempt to arrange all the hitherto discovered indigenous insects in accordance with their natural affinities. Containing also the references to every English writer on entomology, and to the principal foreign authors. With all the published British genera to the present time. Part 1. London : Baldwin & Cradock xxxiv + 416 pp. [239].

  Type species:

   Nitidula litura Fabricius, 1781 by monotypy.
• Rhizobius Agassiz, J.L.R. 1846. [1842-1847]. Nomenclatoris Zoologici, continens nomina systematica generum Animalium tam viventium quam fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum disposita, adjectis auctoribus, libris in quibus reperiuntor, anno editionis, etymologia, et familis, ad quas pertinent, in variis classibus. (Lepidoptera). Soloduri : Jent et Gassmann pp. Fasc. 9-10 [1846]; (Index universalis). 12 [1847] viii+393. [327] [emendation; unjustified emendation].
• Lindorus Casey, T.L. 1899. A revision of the American Coccinellidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7(2): 71-169 [162] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Scymnus loropanthae Blaisdell, 1892 by monotypy.
• Rhizobiellus Oke, C.G. 1951. The Coleoptera of the Russell Grimwade Expedition. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 17: 19-25 [21] [replacement name; unnecessary replacement name for Rhizobius Agassiz].
• Nothorhyzobius Brèthes 1925. Sur une collection de Coccinellidae (et un Phalacridae) du British Museum. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 33: 145-175 [173] [subjective synonym].

  Type species:

   Nothorhyzobius ruficollis Brèthes, 1925 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pope, R.D. 1981. 'Rhyzobius ventralis' (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), its constituent species, and their taxonomic and historical roles in biological control. Bulletin of Entomological Research 71: 19-31 [22] (for Lindorus Casey)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Ślipiński, A. 2007. Australian Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Their biology and classification. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study xviii 286 pp. [127] (diagnosis, distribution)

History of changes