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CHECKLIST OF THE NEW WORLD MELOLONTHINAE-EVANS AND SMITH
(University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA), Scott McCleve (Douglas, Arizona, USA), Jose
Mondaca (Santiago, Chile), Miguel Angel Morón (Instituto de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz, México),
Federico Ocampo (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Matt Paulsen (University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Brett Ratcliffe (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska,
USA), and Paul Robbins (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA), Preparation of the checklist
was supported, in part, by an NSF/BS&I grant (DEB-0342189) to A. B. T. Smith and F. C. Ocampo,
an NSF/PEET grant (DEB9712447) to B. C. Ratcliffe and M. L. Jameson, the Natural History Museum
of Los Angeles County, and our own resources.
SUBFAMILY MELOLONTHINAE Samouelle, 1819
Catalogues: Dejean, 1821, 1833, 1836; Haldeman and LeConte, 1853; LeConte, 1863a; Harold, 1869a;
Crotch, 1873; Henshaw, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1895; Dalla Torre, 1912a, b, c 1913; Leng, 1920; Leng and
Mutchler, 1914, 1917, 1927, 1933; Blackwelder, 1939, 1944; Blackwelder and Blackwelder, 1948;
Blackwelder and Arnett, 1974; Bousquet, 1991; Poole and Gentili, 1996; Smith, 2001; Evans, 2003;
Smith and Evans, 2005.
Keys to genera: Saylor, 1938b: 101
Tribe ONCERINI LeConte and Horn, 1861
Genus ONCERUS LeConte
Oncerus LeConte, 1856: 283. Type species Oncerus floralis LeConte, by monotypy.
Oncerus floralis LeConte, 1856: 283
Distribution: United States
Oncerus floralis LeConte
Genus NEFONCERUS Saylor
Nefoncerus Saylor, 1938b: 102. Type species Oncerus convergens Horn, by monotypy.
Nefoncerus convergens (Horn)
Oncerus convergens Horn, 1894: 394
Nefoncerus convergens (Horn); Saylor, 1938b: 102
Distribution: México
Keys to genera: Howden, 1997: 226
Tribe PODOLASIINI Howden, 1997
Genus PODOLASIA Harold
Podolasia Harold, 1869b: 122 (for LeConte, 1856: 282). Type species Lasiopus ferruginea LeConte,
by monotypy.
Synonym: Lasiopus LeConte, 1856: 282 (preoccupied). Type species Lasiopus ferruginea LeConte, by
monotypy.
Keys to species: Saylor, 1948a: 340; Howden, 1954: 3; 1997: 234
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