Genus Aphileus Candèze, 1857

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Genus Aphileus Candèze, 1857

Aphileus Candèze, E. 1857. Monographie des Elatérides 1. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 12: 1-400 [184].
Type species:
Aphileus lucanoides Candèze, 1857 by subsequent designation, see Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 621-673 [628].
Dorcostoma Newman, E. 1857. Characters of a few apparently undescribed insects collected by James Gibbon, Esq., at Moreton Bay. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 4(3): 51-57 [Date published Feb. 21, 1857] [52] [first introduced as subgenus of Elater Linnaeus, 1758].
Type species:
Elater jansoni Newman, 1857 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [65]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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: 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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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