Species Agrypnus assus (Candèze, 1857)

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Species Agrypnus assus (Candèze, 1857)

Lacon assus Candèze, E. 1857. Monographie des Elatérides 1. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 12: 1-400 [145].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH sex undetermined (abdomen missing), Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande); exact locality unknown.
Subsequent designation references:
Hayek, C.M.F. von 1973. A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 20: 1-309 [Date published Oct. 18, 1973] [128].
Lacon gayndahensis Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [250].
Type data:
Lectotype AM K192541 ♂, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
Paralectotype(s) ANIC 2♀; ANIC(MMUS) 2♂.
Subsequent designation references:
von Hayek, C.M.F. 1979. Additions and corrections to 'A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)'. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 38(5): 183-261 [Date published May 31, 1979] [209].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

von Hayek, C.M.F. 1979. Additions and corrections to 'A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)'. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 38(5): 183-261 [Date published May 31, 1979] [209]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	27-Mar-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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