Species Augenotus australis (Candèze, 1859)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melanoxanthus australis Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543 [520].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande); exact locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) RIB.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [223]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [121] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)