@article {60, title = {Case 3699: Thorectes Mulsant, 1842 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea): proposed conservation of usage}, journal = {Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature}, volume = {72}, number = {4}, year = {2015}, month = {12}, pages = {291{\textendash}296}, type = {Case}, chapter = {291}, abstract = {

The purpose of this application, under Articles 70.3, 74.7 and 81.1 of the Code, is to conserve the current usage of the beetle genus\ Thorectes\ Mulsant, 1842\ (Insecta, Coleoptera,\ Scarabaeoidea,\ Geotrupidae) by confirmation of its type species\ Scarabaeus laevigatus\ Fabricius, 1798. This action will also stabilise the predominant usage of another genus,\ Jekelius\ L{\'o}pez-Col{\'o}n, 1989, for a phylogenetically relatively distant clade of species whose ecological importance in Mediterranean\ Quercus\ forests is currently under study. A lectotype is designated for\ Scarabaeus\ laevigatus\ Fabricius, 1798.

}, keywords = {Coleoptera, geotrupid beetles, Geotrupidae, Insecta, Nomenclature, Palaearctica, Scarabaeoidea, Scarabaeus laevigatus, taxonomy, Thorectes}, author = {Alonso-Zarazaga, MA and Lobo, JM and L{\'o}pez-Col{\'o}n, JI and Verd{\'u}, JR} }