Taxonomic changes resulting from a review of the types of Australian Anoplognathini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) housed in Swedish natural history collections Author Seidel, Matthias 0000-0002-4913-8778 Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, Hamburg, Germany matthias. seidel @ uni-hamburg. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4913 - 8778 matthias.seidel@uni-hamburg.de Author Reid, Chris A. M. 0000-0003-1899-9839 Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2010 chris. reid @ austmus. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1899 - 9839 chris.reid@austmus.gov.au text Zootaxa 2021 2021-01-14 4908 2 225 238 journal article 8831 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.2.4 10415730-8d4c-4d20-b136-2bab24de103f 1175-5326 4438339 14E0A836-320B-49C7-A014-E9257EACD0FD Amblyterus cicatricosus (Gyllenhal, 1817) Melolontha cicatricosa Gyllenhal, 1817 (in Schönherr 1817: 113 ) Amblyterus geminatus MacLeay, 1819: 142 ; Blanchard 1851: 224 (synonymy) Types . Melolontha cicatricosa Gyllenhal, 1817 : lectotype (present designation): ϐ: “N. Holland / D. Hooker // Typus // Melolontha / cicatricosa Gyll. // NHRS-JLKB / 000029815” (NHRS). Remarks . A lectotype is designated here for Melolontha cicatricosa ( Fig. 6 A–F) to fix the species identity. Carne (1958) examined the lectotype in NHRS. The synonymy of A. geminatus with A. cicatricosus was first proposed by Blanchard (1851) . MacLeay’s holotype of A. geminatus is in ANIC although it was not listed when all type material was removed from the Macleay Museum, Sydney University ( Britton & Stanbury 1981 ). It was examined by Carne (1958) and re-examined by us and the synonymy is hereby confirmed. Amblyterus cicatricosus occurs from central New South Wales to central Queensland and is a common species around Sydney ( AMS ). It is distinguished from congeners by its size, colour, leg structure, and large male maxillary palpi ( Carne 1958 ) .