Callistethus Blanchard, 1851

Allsopp, Peter G. & Schoolmeesters, Paul, 2024, All genera of the world: Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae and Cetoniinae (Animalia: Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Megataxa 12 (1), pp. 1-103 : 21-22

Callistethus Blanchard, 1851

[152 species and 5 additional subspecies].

Type species Callistethus consularis Blanchard, 1851

(= Callistethus auronitens ( Hope, 1835)) , by monotypy.

Anomala (Spilota) Burmeister, 1844 (not Spilota Billberg, 1820 , nor Spilota Hübner, 1822 ). Type species Melolontha marginata Fabricius, 1792 , by subsequent designation of Arrow (1917). Synonymy by Machatschke (1957b).

Anomala (Paraspilota) Bates, 1888b (not Paraspilota Bolívar, 1914). Type species Anomala (Paraspilota) impicta Bates, 1888 (= Callistethus plagiicollis plagiicollis (Fairmaire, 1886)) , by monotypy. Synonymy with Spilota by Bates (1891).

Hadropopillia Kraatz, 1892c . Type species Popillia regina Newman, 1838 , by original designation. Synonymy with Spilota Burmeister by Arrow (1899a).

Poecilosticta Kraatz, 1892c . Type species Poecilosticta princeps Kraatz, 1892 (= Callistethus variegatus (Walker, 1858)) , by monotypy. Synonymy with Spilota Burmeister by Arrow (1899a).

Spileuchlora Ohaus, 1903a . Type species Spileuchlora waterstraati Ohaus (1903) , by subsequent designation of Arrow (1917). Synonymy by Ohaus (1918).