Maechidius helleri Telnov 2020, comb. nov.

Maechidius helleri (Frey, 1969) comb. nov. Paramaechidius helleri Frey, 1969: 504 key, 506 (original description). Type material BPBM (♀ holotype), NHMB (♀ paratype). Distribution New Britain of Bismarck Archipelago. Frey (1969) gives “S. E. Bismarck Range Tipu, 6000 ft. ” in the key [Central Cordillera of New Guinea, Bismarck Range], but “New Britain Sio. N. Coast” in the original description. Moreover, Sio is a settlement on the northern coast of New Guinea’s Huon Peninsula and not on New Britain.

Published as part of Telnov, Dmitry, 2020, A revision of the Maechidiini Burmeister, 1855 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) from the Indo-Australian transition zone, and the first record of the tribe west of Wallace's Line, pp. 1-210 in European Journal of Taxonomy 721 on page 189, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.721.1127, http://zenodo.org/record/4122118

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Coleoptera, Maechidius, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia, Biodiversity, Scarabaeidae, Maechidius helleri, Taxonomy

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