Abstract
In 1828, the English entomologist and clergyman William Kirby described Scarabaeus femoralis using material from the collection of another English entomologist and clergyman, Frederick William Hope. The holotype of Scarabaeus femoralis Kirby, 1828 (Fig. 1) is in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History (hereafter referred to as OUMNH). The genus Pachylomera was subsequently erected for this species widespread in central and southern Africa. The purpose of this note is to demonstrate, under the rules of the International Code on Zoological Nomenclature (1999), that Griffith & Pidgeon (1831) should be credited with the authorship of the genus-group name Pachylomera.
References
Bertoloni, J. (1849) Illustratio rerum naturalium Mozambici. Dissertatio 1 de Coleopteris. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, 10, 381–434.
Davis, A.L.V., Frolov, A.V. & Scholtz, C.H. (2008) The African Dung Beetle Genera. Protea Book House, Pretoria, 272 pp.
Evenhuis, N.L. (1997) Litteratura Taxonomica Dipterorum (1758–1930). Volume I, A-K. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, 426 pp.
Ferreira, M.C. (1952) Monografia dos Escarabeídeos da África do Sul. Tribo Scarabaeini. II Parte, Subtribo Scarabaeides. N° 3– Géneros Neateuchus Gillet, Drepanopodus Janssens e Pachylomera Kirby. Revista da Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 2ª série, C, 2, 259–274.
Ferreira, M.C. (1967) Catálogo dos Coleópteros de Angola. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 8 [1965], 417–1317.
Ferreira, M.C. (1968) Os Escarabídeos de Moçambique. I (Subfamílias Scarabaeinae e Coprinae). Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 10 [1967], 5–778.
Ferreira, M.C. (1972) Os Escarabídeos de África (sul do Sáara). I. Revista de Entomologia de Moçambique, 11 [1968–1969], 1088 pp, 35 anns, 288 plates.
Gillet, J.J.-E. (1911) Scarabaeidae: Coprinae I. Pars 38, Vol. 19(2). In: S. Schenkling (ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, 100 pp.
Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. (1831) The Class Insecta arranged by the Baron Cuvier, with Supplementary Additions to each Order. Notices of New Genera and Species by G. Gray. Volume the first. In: Griffith, E. et al., The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its Organisation by the Baron Cuvier, with Supplementary Additions to each Order. Volume 14 (dated 1832). Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., London, 570 pp. 102 plates.
Halffter, G. & Edmonds, W.D. (1982) The nesting behavior of dung beetles (Scarabaeinae), an ecological and evolutive approach. Publicaciones del Instituto de Ecología, México, D. F., Publication 10, 176 pp.
Hanski, I. & Cambefort, Y. (1991) Index of the genera in Scarabaeidae. Pp. 465–473. In: Hanski, I. & Y.Cambefort (eds.), Dung Beetle Ecology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, xiii + 481 pp.
Harold, E.v. (1869) Scarabaeidae. In Gemminger, M. & E. von Harold (eds), Catalogus coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. E.H.Gummi, Munich, 4, 979–1346.
Horn, W. & Kahle, I. (1937) Über entomologische Sammlungen (Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entomo-Museologie). Teil III. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem, 4, 297–536, 38 plates.
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Fourth Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp.
Janssens, A. (1938) Exploration du Parc national Albert, Mission G. F. de Witte (1933–1935). Faciscule 21. Scarabaeini (Coleoptera Lamellicornia, Fam. Scarabaeidae). Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo Belge, Bruxelles, 76 pp, 3 plates.
Janssens, A. (1940) Monographie des Scarabaeus et genres voisins. Mémoires du Musée royal d’Histoire naturelle de Belgique, 2e sér., 16, 81 pp, 3 plates.
Kirby, W. (1828) A description of some Coleopterous insects in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. Zoological Journal, 3, 520–525.
Krajčik, M. (2006) Checklist of Scarabaeoidea of the World. 1. Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Animma.x, Supplement 3, 1–189.
Latreille, P.A. (1829) Crustacés, Arachnides et partie des Insectes. In: Cuvier, G., Le Règne animal distribué d’après son organisation, pour servir de base à l’histoire naturelle des animaux et d’introduction à l’anatomie comparée. Nouvelle Édition, revue et augmentée. Tome IV. Déterville, Paris, xvii + 584 pp.
Mostert, L.E. & Scholtz, C.H. (1986) Systematics of the subtribe Scarabaeina (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Entomology Memoir. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Cape Town, 65,1–25.
Neave, S.A. (1940) Nomenclator Zoologicus. A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the End of 1935. Volume 3. The Zoological Society of London, London, 1065 pp.
Péringuey, L. (1901) Descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidae and Scarabaeidae). Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, 12 [1900], 1–920, 12 plates.
Shipp, J.W. (1894) The coprophagous lamellicorns; a revised list of species belonging to the genera Pachylomerus, Kirby and Ateuchus, Weber. The Entomologist, 27, 254–257, 289–293, & 309–314.
Zídek, J. & Pokorný, S. (2004) Checklist of the genus Scarabaeus Linné. Animma.x, 5, 1–30.
Zídek, J. & Pokorný, S. (2008) Illustrated keys to Palearctic Scarabaeus Linné (Scarabaeidae). Animma.x, 27, 1–28.