Polynoncus Burmeister, 1876

Trox (Polynoncus) Burmeister 1876: 264 (pro parte); Preudhomme de Borre 1886: 59 (identification key and checklist); Arrow 1912: 53; Scholtz 1982: 15 (catalogue)

Polynoncus: Scholtz 1986a: 362 (systematics); Scholtz 1990: 1419 (revision); Diéguez 2008: 13 (new species and notes); Gómez 2008: 514 (identification key); Zidek 2013: 6 (checklist); Strümpher et al. 2014: 549 (systematics); Strümpher et al. 2016: 73 (overview); Zidek 2017: 97 (checklist); Huchet and Costa-Silva 2018: 554 (new species); Costa-Silva and Diéguez 2020: 268 (new species and checklist), Mondaca 2023: 209 (checklist from Chile)

Type species

Trox pedestris Harold, 1872, by subsequent designation by Scholtz (1982, p. 15).

Etymology

From the Greek ‘πολύ/poly’ (= many, very) and ‘όΓΚος/ónkos’ (= tumor, volume) (Brown 1954), in reference to the elytral tubercles found in the majority of Trogidae species.