Species Arthropterus denudatus (Westwood, 1850)

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• Cerapterus (Arthropterus) denudatus Westwood, J.O. 1850. Descriptions of seventeen new species of the family Paussidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 2 2: 55-60 [56].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Mundarra district, (?QLD), Australia.

  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. [76 pl. 15 fig. 1].
• Arthropterus angusticornis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [154].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens, Gayndah, QLD.
• Arthropterus politus Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [352].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Liverpool plains, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gestro, R. 1910. Cupedidae, Paussidae. pp. 1-31 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 4 Pars 5. [8]
• Janssens, E. 1953. Cupesidae, Paussidae. pp. 1-84 in Hincks, W.D. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Gravenhage : W. Junk Vol. 4(5). [Date published 3-Jun-53] [20]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

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