Anachayus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Tenebrionidae
Subfamilia: Stenochiinae
Tribus: Cnodalonini
Genus: Anachayus
Species: A. fragilicornis – A. obscurus – A. purpurata –A. spissicornis – A. villosipes

(For details on Chatanayus obscurus (Chatanay, 1915); Chatanayus purpurata (Klug, 1833) (= syn. Chatanayus vicki (Fairmaire, 1901), see Schawaller, 2010: 283).

Name

Anachayus Bouchard & Bousquet, 2021.

Type species: Chemolanus villosipes Fairmaire, 1884, by original designation (automatic designation from preoccupied Chatanayus Ardoin, 1957).

Gender: [Undefined - masculine?]

Synonymy

Chatanayus Ardoin, 1957: 61. Protonym; Schawaller, 2010: 283. Junior homonym of Chatanayus Fleutiaux 1940 [Coleoptera: Elateridae], subsequently Anachayus Bouchard & Bousquet, 2021: 99 (also see p.2, 76 and 140). Replacement name.

[Note: for the homonym Chatanayus Fleutiaux 1940, Fleutiaux, 1940 writes (p.124) that the genus name is dedicated the memory of Jean Chatanay, then altered with second declension masculine suffix -us]

References

Primary references

Ardoin, P. 1957. Contribution à l'étude des Ténébrionides malgaches (2e note). Naturaliste Malgache 9: 61–69. Reference page.
Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Aalbu, R.L., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Merkl, O.(†) & Davies, A.E. 2021. Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera). ZooKeys 1050: 1–633. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1050.64217 Reference page.
Ferrer, J. 1998. Contribution à la connaissance des Tenebrionidae de Madagascar. Entomofauna: Zeitschrift für Entomologie 19(23): 353–404. Zobodat PDF Reference page.
Fleutiaux, E. 1939[1940]. Les élatérides de l’Indochine française. Septième partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 108: 121–148. (French) Gallica. Reference page.
Schawaller, W. 2010. Check-list and bibliography of the Tenebrionidae (sensu stricto) from Madagascar (Coleoptera). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (A) (NS) 3: 277–289. Zobodat PDF Reference page.