Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 (not Melolontha Geoffroy, 1762)

[68 species and 7 additional subspecies].

Conserved name (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1994).

Type species Scarabaeus melolontha Linnaeus, 1758, by absolute tautonymy.

Melolontha (Oplosternus) Guérin-Méneville, 1838 .

Type species Melolontha (Oplosternus) chinensis Guérin-Méneville, 1838, by monotypy.

Synonymy by Semenov (1895).

Note: Blanchard (1851) incorrectly spelt Oplosternus as “ Hoplosternus ”.

Ludibrius Gozis, 1886 .

Unnecessary replacement name for Melolontha Fabricius, 1775 .

Melolontha (Apropyga) Medvedev, 1951 .

Type species Melolontha aceris Faldermann, 1836, by original designation.

Synonymy by Rössner & Hillert (2020).