Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Alternative spelling: Melolonthidae
Full reference: W. E. Leach. 1819. Taxonomic names. The Entomologist’s Useful Compendium; or an Introduction to the Knowledge of British Insects, Comprising the Best Means of Obtaining and Preserving them, and a Description of the Apparatus Generally Used; Together with the Genera of Linné, and the Modern Method of Arranging the Classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, Spiders, Mites and Insects, from their Affinities and Structure, According to the views of Dr. Leach. Also an Explanation of the Terms Used in Entomology; a Calendar of the Times of Appearance and Usual Situations of near 3,000 Species of British Insects 1-448
Parent taxon: Scarabaeidae according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Statz 1952, Wappler 2003 and Zhang 1989
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Cretomelolonthini Diplotaxini Eophyllocerus Euchirini Hopliini Listrochelus Macrodactylini Melolonthini Melolonthites Sericini
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (1: California)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene of Tanzania (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (5), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (4), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (13: Colorado, Tennessee, Utah)
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 43 collections including 56 occurrences