Type species designations of Afrotropical Ablaberini and Sericini genera (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)
Author
Ahrens, Dirk
text
Zootaxa
2007
1496
53
62
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.177047
fc8b54c3-a6ee-4ffb-80dd-1b8cd0ca50b4
1175-5326
177047
Oocamenta
Péringuey, 1904
Oocamenta
Péringuey, 1904
: 105
;
Machatschke 1959
: 743
.
Type
species:
Camenta rufiventris
Burmeister, 1855
(by monotypy).
Remarks:
Péringuey (1904)
established the subgenus
Pseudocamenta
Péringuey (1904: 106)
within the newly erected genus
Oocamenta
. Since
Pseudocamenta
included one of the two originally included species of
Oocamenta
(
Oocamenta
[
Pseudocamenta
]
transvaalia
Péringuey, 1904
), the
type
species for the nominotypical subgenus
Oocamenta
(
Oocamenta
)
automatically becomes
Camenta rufiventris
Burmeister, 1855
because it is the only species originally placed in this subgenus. Consequently, it is also the
type
species of the genus
Oocamenta
(see
ICZN 1999
, Art. 68.3.1).