Gonatas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa 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: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Passalidae
Subfamilia: Passalinae
Tribus: Macrolinini
Genus: Gonatas
Species: G. altidens – G. carolinensis – G. cetioides – G. germari – G. hebridalis – G. intermedius – G. minimus – G. minor – G. naviculator – G. odiosus – G. pumilio – G. schellongi – G. tenimbrensis – G. vanuatuensis

(Note: Caution with junior homonym Gonatas Distant, 1882 [Insecta: Hemiptera], and similarly named Gonatus Gray, 1849 [Mollusca]).

Name

Gonatas Kaup, 1871: 50. [See also table, p.23]

Type species: Gonatas naviculator (Percheron, 1844), by subsequent designation in Gravely, 1918: 108 (Note: others in the genus as initially defined were Gonatas pumilio (Kaup, 1868) OR Gonatas germari (Kaup, 1868)).

Gender: masculine

Synonymy

• Tatius Kuwert, 1898: 315. Junior subjective synonym of Gonatas Kaup, 1871 in Gravely, 1918: 108. [See earlier comment on 78]

• • Type species: Tatius odiosus Kuwert, 1898: 315; by monotypy.
• Omegarius Kuwert, 1898: 313. Junior subjective synonym of Gonatas Kaup, 1871 in Gravely, 1918: 108. [See earlier comment on 78]
  • Type species: Omegarius pumilio (Kaup, 1871) in Gravely 1913: 109]; by subsequent designation. [contra Omegarius minimus Kuwert, 1898 313.]

References

Primary references

• Kaup, J.J. 1871. Monographie der Passaliden. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 15(4): 1–125. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Gravely, F.H. 1913. Three Genera of Papuan Passalid Coleoptera. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 30: 103-112, 6 text-figs. BHL . [PDF (alternative)] Reference page. 
• Gravely, F.H. 1914 [1913?]. An account of the Oriental Passalidae (Coleoptera): based primarily on the collection in the Indian Museum. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 3(4): 530 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Gravely, F.H. 1918. A contribution towards the revision of the Passalidae of the World. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 7: 1–144. BHL Reference page. 
• Kaup, J.J. 1868. Prodromus zu einer Monographie der Passaliden. Coleopterologische. Hefte 3: 4–32. Reference page. 
• Kuwert, A. 1896. Die Passaliden dichotomisch bearbeitet. Novitates Zoologicae 3: 209–230. BHL. Reference page. 
• Boucher, S. 1991. Les Passalides de l’archipel du Vanuatu. Remarques faunistiques et biogéographiques; comparaison avec la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 27(3): 361–374. PDF Reference page. 
• Boucher, S. 2004. The species of Passalidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) described by Johann Jakob Kaup: Historical overview and critical catalogue, with the description of four new species. Kaupia 13: 99–121. Reference page.