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Genus of beetles

Lomaptera
Lomaptera bicolorata Moser, 1912
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Cetoniinae
Genus: Lomaptera
Gory & Percheron, 1833
Type species
Cetonia papua
Guérin-Méneville, 1830

Lomaptera are beetles from the subfamily Cetoniinae, tribe Schizorhinini. The genus was created by Gory & Percheron, in 1833. The type species of the genus is Cetonia papua Guérin-Méneville, 1830. These cetoniids have the tip of the scutellum invisible, which makes the difference with the genus Ischiopsopha.

The genus is spread throughout the whole Australian region.

Species

The details of the paramers have been published in the volume 25 of The Beetles of the World, together with many distribution maps.

  • Lomaptera batchiana Thomson, 1860 Lomaptera batchiana Thomson, 1860
  • Lomaptera lutea Janson, 1905 Lomaptera lutea Janson, 1905
  • Lomaptera macrophylla Gestro, 1874 Lomaptera macrophylla Gestro, 1874

References

  • 1. Alexis & Delpont, 2000. Description de sept nouvelles espèces et de deux sous espèces..., Lambillionea, C, pp. 53–68
  • 2. Antoine (Ph.), 2004. Contribution à l'étude des Schizorhinini..., Coléoptères, 10(7), pp. 75–89
  • 3. Audureau (A.), 2000. Description de deux nouvelles espèces de Cetoniidae d'Irian Jaya, Lambillionea, C, pp. 388–390
  • 4. Legrand (J.-Ph.), 2006. Trois nouvelles espèces de Schizorhinini de Nouvelle-Guinée, Les Cahiers Magellanes, (H.S.), 17, p. 6
  • 5. Le Thault (P.), 2005. Contribution à l'étude du genre Lomaptera et description de Lomaptera girouxi n. sp., Cetoniimania, 2(1), pp. 40–45
  • 6. Le Thault (P.), 2005. Contribution à l'étude du genre Lomaptera et description de Lomaptera nova sp. joallandi, Cetoniimania, 2(2), pp. 60–65
  • 7. Rigout (J.) et Allard (V.), 1997. The Beetles of the World, volume 25, Hillside Books, Canterbury, pp. 40–128
  • 8. Valck Lucassen (F.), 1961. Monographie du genre Lomaptera Gory & Percheron, Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging, pp. 1–299
Taxon identifiers
Lomaptera
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