© Benaki Phytopathological Institute
Hellenic Plant Protection Journal
10:
84-90, 2017
DOI 10.1515/hppj-2017-0010
1
Zoology Department, University of Canterbury, Pri-
vate Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2
Goulandris Natural History Museum, 13 Levidou, GR-
145 62 Kifissia, Attica, Greece.
* Corresponding author:
SHORT COMMUNICATION
A catalogue of the Coleoptera of the G.P. Moazzo Collection in
the Goulandris Natural History Museum. Part III (Scarabaeidae)
J. Tylianakis
1
, M. Dimaki
2*
and V. Perdiou
2
Summary
This is a detailed list of 223 species (727 specimens) of the family Scarabaeidae, the subfam-
ilies Dynastinae (21 species), Melolonthinae (11 species), Rutelinae (29 species), Aphodiinae (104 spe-
cies), Cetoniinae (59 species), represented in G.P. Moazzo’s collection at the Goulandris Natural History
Museum. All label data for each specimen are given. The aim of this paper is to present this collection
as reference data for comparison with recent entomological material.
Additional keywords:
Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Melolonthinae, Rutelinae, Aphodiinae, Cetoniinae
erence information regarding insect speci-
mens of Scarabaeidae.
The material is of historical importance,
with some specimens over 100 years old
with a wide geographical distribution across
5 continents (Europe, Africa, Asia, America,
Australia). It is published with the informa-
tion given exactly as it appears on the in-
dividual labels. In some cases data may be
missing such as collection date and exact lo-
cality. An effort has been made to provide
the current nomenclature, where possible.
The specimens are in a very good condition
and their identification is still possible.
Materials and methods
The specimens were collected during field-
work and have all been mounted on pins
and arranged in unit trays within cabinet
drawers at the GNHM. A determination label
accompanies each specimen as well as a da-
tabase number. This number corresponds to
the information of each specimen as well as
the current name. The material has been ex-
amined and described mainly by G.P. Moaz-
zo.
This collection includes material from
collectors such as A. Carneri, G. Louvet, B.
Alpes, Talbiele, Petroff, Schuster, Winkler,
McMaygiore, Efflatoun and G.P. Moazzo
Introduction
The Entomological Collection of the Gou-
landris Natural History Museum (GNHM) was
established in 1973. One particularly signifi-
cant collection is that of Georgi Polychronis
Moazzo, which contains insects (Coleoptera
in their majority) collected since 1910 (Gou-
landris, 1977). Moazzo‘s entomological col-
lection of GNHM includes 5500 specimens.
Among them there are 1312 beetle species
belonging to 58 families (Dimaki and Tyli-
anakis 2006; Tylianakis and Dimaki 2006, Di-
maki
et al.,
2016). This is part III of the afore-
mentioned collection, part I containing the
families Carabaeidae, Cicindelidae, and Dy-
tiscidae (Dimaki and Tylianakis, 2006) and
part II containing part of the Scarabaeidae
family (Tylianakis and Dimaki, 2006).
The aim of this paper is to present the
species of the Scarabaeidae subfamilies Dy-
nastinae, Melolonthinae, Rutelinae, Aphodi-
inae and Cetoniinae kept in the entomologi-
cal collection of GNHM (Moazzo’s collection).
The catalogue would be of particular inter-
est for use by entomologists seeking for ref-
