Genus Adelium Kirby, 1819

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• Adelium Kirby, W. 1819. A century of insects, including several new genera described from his cabinet. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12: 375-453 [dated 1818] [420].

  Type species:

   Adelium calosomoides Kirby, 1819 by subsequent designation, see Meyer, J. 1844. Das grosse Conservations-Lexicon für die gebildeten Stände. In Verbindung mit Staatsmännern, Gelehrten, Künstlern und Technikern. [The great Conservations Lexicon for the educated classes. In connection with statesmen, scholars, artists and technicians]. Hildburghausen : Bibliographic Institute Vol. 7(1) pp. 1147. [180].
• Tropidopterus Blanchard, E. 1845. Histoire des insectes, traitant de leurs moeurs et de leurs métamorphoses en général, et comprenant une nouvelle classification fondée sur leurs rapports naturels. Hyménoptères et Coléoptères. Paris : Didot Vol. 2. [37] [nom. nud.].
• Dystalica Pascoe, F.P. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidae from Australia and Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 29-45, 132-153, 277-296, 344-351 [142].

  Type species:

   Dystalica homogenea Pascoe, 1869 by monotypy.
• Rues Casey, T.L. 1891. Coleopterological notices III. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 6: 9-214 [66].

  Type species:

   Helops ovipennis Casey, 1890 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Spilman, T.J. 1959. Notes on Edrotes, Leichenum, Palorus, Eupsophulus, Adelium and Strongylium (Tenebrionidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 13: 58-64 [63] (Rues Casey)
• Matthews, E.G. 1998. Classification, phylogeny and biogeography of the genera of Adeliini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 685-824 [777] (Dystalica Pascoe)

Introduction

The type species previously recognised for this genus was Carabus porcatus Fabricius, 1775, by subsequent designation by Lacordaire (1859: 438). See Bouchard et al. (2021).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC) ; Tas: Flinders (FLI)

General References

Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Aalbu, R.L., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Merkl, O. & Davies, A.E. 2021. Review of genus-group names in the family Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera). ZooKeys 1050: 1-633 [89]

Lacordaire, J.T. 1859. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusquici dans cet orde d'insectes. Tome cinquième contenant les familles des ténébrionides, cistélides, nilionides, pythides, mélandryides, lagriides, pédilides, anthicides, pyrochroïdes, mordellides, rhipiphorides, stylopides, meloïdes et oedémérides. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret Atlas 750 pp. [Première partie pp. 1–400, Deuxième partie pp. 401–750] [438 nota]

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