Species Agrypnus caliginosus (Boisduval, 1835)

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• Elater caliginosus Boisduval, J.B.A.D. 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 Vol. 2 vii 267 pp. [105].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, 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] [134].
• Adelocera grisea Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1830. pl. 2. In, Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, sur la Corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, Pendant les Années 1822–1825. Atlas, Insectes. Paris : Arthus Bertrand, Libraire. [Date published 25/Nov/1830] [publication date 25 November 1830 Cowan, C.F. 1970. The insects of the Coquille voyage. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5(5): 358–360 [359]] [pl. 2, fig. 7] [nom. oblit., see 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].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown or lost (see 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 [136]), locality unknown.
• Adelocera caliginosa Boisduval, J.B.A.D. 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 Vol. 2 vii 267 pp. [98].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown or lost, Hobart, TAS and TAS (as Hobart-Town et à la terre de Van-Diemen).
• Adelocera caliginosa Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1838. Insectes: I. Coléoptères. pp. 57-71 in Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde sur la corvette de sa majesté La Coquille Zoologie. Paris : Arthus Bertrand Vol. 2(2) pp. iv-xii 9-319. [publication of text dated 1838 Cowan, C.F. 1970. The insects of the Coquille voyage. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5(5): 358–360 [358]] [68] [junior primary homonym of Adelocera caliginosa Boisduval, 1835].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown or lost, Port Jackson [Sydney], NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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] [134]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

History of changes

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