Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée : exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont-d'Urville. Anthropologie

Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea /

“…), while Polyrhanis, although centred on New Guinea itself (38 species) is also known from several small New Guinean islands: Roon (1), Waigeo (5), Misool (3), Yapen (4), Biak (1), Moluccas (Aru, Batjan, Halmahera, Buru and Ceram) (3), Goodenough (1), New Britain (2), Mioko (1), New Ireland (1) and the Solomon Islands (7 species). In Fiji there are two further species [Oceanella vitiensis (Blanchard, 1853) and Parapolyrhanis oceanica Cassola, 1983] which are apparently allied to Polyrhanis (Cassola 2009). As to Guineica, it is also a New Guinean endemic genus, with 2 species in the main island (1 of which occurs also in New Britain).…”

“…Figulus foveicollis (Boisduval, 1835) Platycerus foveicollis Boisduval, 1835: 235 Figulus insularis Blanchard, 1853 Figulus hoplocnemus De Lisle, 1974 Figulus hoplocnemus De Lisle, 1974: 799 Distribution: New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) Figulus hornabrooki Bomans, 1986 Figulus hornabrooki Bomans, 1986b: 12 Distribution: New Guinea (Papua New Guinea).…”

Illustrated catalog of world Promecheilidae Lacordaire, 1859 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea)

“…This species, comprising a monotypic genus, is described from a single specimen collected along the Strait of Magellan. This holotype was destroyed in the process of illustration during the publication and establishment of this taxon (Blanchard 1853:172, Kulzer 1963. The illustration (Blanchard 1847) clearly shows a 5-5-4 tarsal formula, the prothorax is slightly narrower than the base of the elytra and is both described alongside taxa belonging to Promecheilidae (Blanchard 1853) and dubiously included among current promecheilid genera treated by Kulzer (1963).…”

“…This holotype was destroyed in the process of illustration during the publication and establishment of this taxon (Blanchard 1853:172, Kulzer 1963. The illustration (Blanchard 1847) clearly shows a 5-5-4 tarsal formula, the prothorax is slightly narrower than the base of the elytra and is both described alongside taxa belonging to Promecheilidae (Blanchard 1853) and dubiously included among current promecheilid genera treated by Kulzer (1963). Given all the above information, we hereby move the genus from its current position (Tenebrionidae: Helopini, see Bouchard et al 2021) into Promecheilidae.…”

“…Genus DolphusBlanchard, 1847 Dolphus Blanchard, 1847. Type species by original monotypy Dolphus globipennisBlanchard, 1847. …”