Species Anoplostethus opalinus Brullé, 1837

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• Anoplostethus opalinus Brullé, G.A. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, traitant de leur organization et de leurs moeurs en général par M.V. Audouin, et comprenent leur classification et la description des espèces. Coléoptères 3. Paris : Pillot Vol. 6 448 pp. [376].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, WA (as Nouvelle Hollande occidentale).

  Secondary source:

   Carne, P.B. 1957. A revision of the ruteline genus Anoplognathus Leach (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 5(1): 88–143 [184].
• Panschizus pallidus Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 36-51 [51].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ?♀, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) ?♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Carne, P.B. 1957. A revision of the ruteline genus Anoplognathus Leach (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 5(1): 88–143 [184]; Cassis, G. & Weir, T.A. 1992. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 9. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS xii 544 pp. (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ohaus, F. 1918. Scarabaeidae: Euchirinae, Phaenomerinae, Rutelinae. pp. 1-241 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Scarabaeidae II. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XX Pt 66. [173]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, 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)