Species Amycterus mirabilis (Kirby, 1819)

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• Curculio mirabilis Kirby, W. 1819. A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12: 454-482 [Date published 31/12/1819] [469; pl. 23 fig. 9].
• Amycterus mirabundus Gyllenhal, L. 1834. [taxonomic descriptions]. In, Schoenherr, C.J. Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C.H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Paris : Roret Vol. 2(2) pp. 329-669 (+671-673, Corrigenda). [471] [subjective synonym].
• Amycterus impressus Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [375; pl. 7 fig. 10] [subjective synonym].
• Amycterus crenatus Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [385] [subjective synonym].
• Psalidura howittii Macleay, W.J. 1865. The genera and species of Amycteridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 199-298 [211] [subjective synonym].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K289404 (1852), Sydney to Mount Abundance, NSW, thence to Maranoa and the Warrego; from there to Nivelle River back to Warrego, QLD.
• Psalidura helyi Macleay, W.J. 1865. The genera and species of Amycteridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 199-298 [213] [subjective synonym].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K289405, Melbourne, VIC [37° 48' 50" S 144° 57' 48" E].
• Psalidura crenulata Ferguson, E.W. 1915. Notes on Amycterides, with descriptions of new species. part II. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria N.S. 27: 232-260 [234] [subsequent misspelling].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dohrn, C.A. 1872. Exotisches. 4. Zur Rüsselkäfergruppe der Amycteriden continued. Entomologische Zeitung Stettin 33(4-6): 143-165 [150] (for Amycterus mirabundus)
• Ferguson, E.W. 1909. Revision of the Amycteridae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 524-585 [572-573] (for Amycterus impressus, A. crenatus, Psalidura howittii and P. helyi)

Generic Combinations

• Psalidura crenata (Boisduval, 1835). —
  Masters, G. 1872. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Parts ii–iv. Sydney : F. White pp. 65-246. [225]
• Aphalidura impressa (Boisduval, 1835). —
  Sharp, D. 1920. Studies in Rhynchophora. VII. — on Phalidura. Amycteridae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 56: 1-7 [6]
• Psalidura impressa (Boisduval, 1835). —
  Macleay, W.J. 1865. The genera and species of Amycteridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 199-298 [208]
• Amycterus mirabilis (Kirby, 1819). —
  Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [381]
• Phalidura mirabilis (Kirby, 1819). —
  Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [444]
• Psalidura mirabunda (Gyllenhal, 1834). —
  Macleay, W.J. 1865. The genera and species of Amycteridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 199-298 [207]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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