Species Anilicus xanthomus (W.S. Macleay, 1826)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Elater xanthomus 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] [441].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀, Australia; exact locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [216]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [120] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Ampedus semiflavus Germar, E.F. 1844. Bemerkungen über Elateriden. Zeitschrift für Entomologie (Breslau) 5: 133-192 [163].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMB ♂, Sydney, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [216].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [214]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

History of changes

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