Genus Eurhopalus Solier in Gay, 1849

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Regional Maps

• Eurhopalus Solier, A.J.J. 1849. Orden III. Coleopteros (Pentamera, Heteromera I). pp. 105-380 in Gay, C. (ed.). Historia Física y Política de Chile. Zoológica. Paris & Santiago : C. Gay Vol. 4 511 pp. 32 pls.

  Type species:

   Eurhopalus variegatus Solier, 1849 by original designation.
• Sodaliatoma Háva, J. 2013. Description of Sodaliatoma konvickai gen. et. sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Dermestidae: Megatominae) from Peru. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (52): 113–115.

  Type species:

   Sodaliatoma konvickai Háva, 2013 by monotypy.
• Reesa Beal, R.S. 1967. A revisionary study of the North American dermestid beetles formerly included in the genus Perimegatoma (Coleoptera). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 5: 281-312.

  Type species:

   Perimegatoma vespulae Milliron, 1939 by original designation.
• Neoanthrenus Armstrong, J.W.T. 1941. On Australian Dermestidae. Part I. Descriptions of a new genus and two new species; also a note on the genus Anthrenus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(5-6): 388-390.

  Type species:

   Anthrenus ocellifer Blackburn, 1891 by original designation.
• Anthrenocerus Arrow, G.J. 1915. Notes on the coleopterous family Dermestidae and descriptions of some new forms in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 15: 425-451.

  Type species:

   Anthrenus australis Hope, 1843 by original designation.
• Myrmeanthrenus Armstrong, J.W.T. 1945. On Australian Dermestidae. Part IV. Notes and the description of a new genus and four new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70(1-2): 47-52.

  Type species:

   Myrmeanthrenus frontalis Armstrong, 1945 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24 [21]

Introduction

Through phylogenetic analyses, Zhou et al. (2022) found the genus Trogoderma to be paraphyletic, and split into two re-defined genera. Species of Trogoderma that occur in the Southern Hemisphere (with the exception of T. variabile) were transferred to the genus Eurhopalus. The genera Anthrenocerus, Myrmeanthrenus, Neoanthrenus, and Reesa were also synonymised with Eurhopalus.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NT, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Sturt Plateau (STU)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

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