Species Arthropterus macleayi (Donovan, 1805)

Museums

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• Cerapterus macleaii Donovan, E. 1805. An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other Islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans: including Figures and Descriptions of One Hundred and Fifty-three Species of the more Splendid, Beautiful, and Interesting Insects, hitherto Discovered in those Countries, and which for the most Part have not appeared in the Works of any Preceding Author. London : Rivington iv + [167] pp. + [41] pls. [Date published January] [pl. 3] [subsequently emmended to macleayi by Masters, G. 1886. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Paussidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 638–641 [639]; specimen described by Westwood (1838) as Arthropterus macleayii (Donovan) in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 2: 95, is in fact Arthropterus distinctus Thomson, 1860].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Australia (as New Holland).

  Secondary source:

   Masters, G. 1886. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Paussidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 638-641.
• Cerapterus (Arthropterus) parallelocerus Westwood, J.O. 1851. Descriptions of two new species of Paussidae from Australasia in the collection of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 2 2: 100-101 [100].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) OUM, Australasia; MNHP, Australasia.

  Secondary source:

   Westwood, J.O. 1874. Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis; or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects, for the most part contained in the collections presented to the University of Oxford by the Rev. F.W. Hope, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., etc., with forty plates from drawings by the author. Oxford : Macmillan xxiv 205 pp. 40 pls. [77 pl. 15 fig. 9].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kolbe, H. 1924. Zur Kenntnis der Paussiden Australiens: Untergattungen von Arthropterus. (Col). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 4: 345-353 [352]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Cumberland, Lane Cove.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Channel Country (CHC), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)