Species Lychas marmoreus (C.L. Koch, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tityus marmoreus Koch, C.L. 1845. Die Arachniden. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Nürnberg : C.H. Zeh'schen Vol. 12 166 pp. [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Isometrus bituberculatus Pocock, R.I. 1891. Notes on some scorpions collected by Mr. J.J. Walker, with descriptions of two new species and a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 8: 241-247 [243].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH juvenile, Baudin Island, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia.
• Lychas marmoreus obscurus Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Scorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [27] [junior homonym of Lychas asper obscurus Kraepelin, 1913].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♀, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Lychas marmoreus nigrescens Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Scorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♀, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Lychas marmoreus splendens Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Scorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [28].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMH 462 ♀, Moora, Western Australia, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) ZMH 462 6 adults and juveniles, Moora, Western Australia, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kovarík, F. 1997. Revision of the genera Lychas and Hemilychas, with description of six new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 61: 311-371 [340].
• Lychas marmoreus lucienkochi Fet, V. 1997. Notes on the taxonomy of some Old World scorpions (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Chactidae, Ischnuridae, Scorpionidae). Journal of Arachnology 25: 245-250 [247] [nom. nov. for Lychas marmoreus obscurus Kraepelin, 1916].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Kovarík, F. 1997. Revision of the genera Lychas and Hemilychas, with description of six new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 61: 311-371 [338] (redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)