Metagonia Kolbe, 1899

Bezdĕk, Aleš, 2004, Catalogue of Diplotaxini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Melolonthinae) of the Old World, Zootaxa 463 (1), pp. 1-90 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.463.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13787408
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scientific name	Metagonia Kolbe, 1899
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Genus Metagonia Kolbe, 1899 View in CoL

Apogonia (Metagonia) Kolbe, 1899a: 42 ; Ritsema, 1904b: 114 (catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1912: 136 (catalogue)

Metagonia: Moser, 1918a View in CoL (imprint 1917): 242; Burgeon, 1945: 2 (key), 17

Type species: Apogonia mediocris Kolbe, 1899 ; here designated.

Distribution: Ethiopian region.

Remark: Originally described as a subgenus of the genus Apogonia , it was subsequently upgraded to the genus rank by Moser (1918). Kolbe (1899a) created a new subgenus Metagonia for 4 species: A. platypyge , A. platypus , A. pusilla and A. mediocris , but he did not fix its type species. When creating the subgenus Metagonia, Kolbe knew both sexes only in A. mediocris . Because Metagonia differs from other members of the Old World Diplotaxini partially in the considerable sexual dimorphism (shape of pygidium), A. mediocris is designated here as the type species of the subgenus Metagonia .