Species Aphileus lucanoides Candèze, 1857

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Species Aphileus lucanoides Candèze, 1857

Aphileus lucanoides Candèze, E. 1857. Monographie des Elatérides 1. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 12: 1-400 [184].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia.
Subsequent designation references:
Neboiss, A. 1959. A revision of the genus Aphileus Candèze (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 7(2): 136-145 [Date published Oct. 31, 1959] [139].
Aphileus depressus Candèze, E. 1857. Monographie des Elatérides 1. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 12: 1-400 [185].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia.
Subsequent designation references:
Neboiss, A. 1959. A revision of the genus Aphileus Candèze (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 7(2): 136-145 [Date published Oct. 31, 1959] [139].
Dorcostoma jansoni 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].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH (probable), Brisbane (as Moreton Bay), QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Neboiss, A. 1959. A revision of the genus Aphileus Candèze (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 7(2): 136-145 [Date published Oct. 31, 1959] [139]

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 Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), 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: NE coastal
- Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

General References

Neboiss, A. 1959. A revision of the genus Aphileus Candèze (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 7(2): 136-145 [Date published Oct. 31, 1959] [141] (larval description)

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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