Genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819

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Genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819

Compiler and date details

2002 - Updated by Andrew A. Calder, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia

1992 - Gerasimos Cassis, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, W.W. Keith Houston, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Tom A. Weir and Barry P. Moore

Anomala Samouelle, G. 1819. The Entomologists useful Compendium; or an introduction to the knowledge of British insects. London : Thomas Boys 496 pp. [191].
Type species:
Melolontha frischii Fabricius, 1775 by monotypy.
Secondary source:
Machatschke, J.W. 1957. Genera Insectorum de P. Wytsman. Coleoptera Lamellicornia. Fam. Scarabaeidae. Subfam. Rutelinae. Anvers : S.P.R.L. Imprimerie et Editiones Mercurius Vol. Fasc. 199B 219 pp. 6 pls. [33].
Aprosterna Hope, F.W. 1835. Monograph on Mimela, a genus of coleopterous insects. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 108-117 [117] [first proposed as a subgenus of Mimela Kirby, 1823].
Type species:
Mimela nigricans Kirby, 1825 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Arrow, G.J. 1917. The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part II. (Rutelinae, Desmonycinae, and Euchirinae). London : Taylor & Francis vii 387 pp. 5 pls. [126]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

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, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT: Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Daly Basin (DAB), Pine Creek (PCK) ; Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, SW coastal
Papua New Guinea

Distribution References

Machatschke, J.W. 1972. Scarabaeoidea: Melolonthidae Rutelinae. pp. 1-361 in Wilcox, J.A. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Supplementa. The Hague : W. Junk Pt 66 Fasc. I 2 edn. [86]

General References

Jin, M., Weir, T., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2014. Description of a new species of Anomala Samouelle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3872: 591–600 [592] (diagnosis)

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)
30-Oct-2014	Anomala Samouelle, 1819	28-Oct-2014	MODIFIED
		09-Aug-2012	MODIFIED

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