Species Agrypnus variabilis (Candèze, 1857)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lacon variabilis Candèze, E. 1857. Monographie des Elatérides 1. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 12: 1-400 [148].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).

  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] [227].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
• New Zealand
  • North Island

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: predator, root feeder, soil dweller.

 

General References

Forrester, N.W., Gunning, R.V. & Singh, G. 1984. Insecticidal control and economic damage of sugar-cane wireworm, Agrypnus variablis (Candèze) in maize. Crop Protection 3(2): 253-259 (insecticidal control)

Kuschel, G. 1990. Beetles in a suburban environment: a New Zealand case study. The identity and status of Coleoptera in the natural and modified habitats of Lynfield, Auckland (1974-1989). DSIR Plant Protection Report No. 3: 1-118, figs 1-230 [52] (accidentally introduced into New Zealand)

Robertson, L.N., Firth, A.C. & Davison, R.H. 1981. Predation on Australian soldier fly, Inopus rubriceps (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), in pasture. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 8: 431-439 (biology)

Williams, E.M. & Galbreath, R.A. 1987. Diet and development in Conoderus exsul and Agrypnus variabilis (Coleoptera: Elateridae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 85-88 (biology)

 

Common Name References

Carne, P.B. (ed.) 1987. Scientific and Common Names of Insects and Allied Forms Occurring in Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO 120 pp. [98] (Sugarcane Wireworm)

 

History of changes

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