Species Automolius cookii (Macleay, 1886)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Liparetrus cookii Macleay, W.J. 1886. Miscellanea entomologica. No. II — The genus Liparetrus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 807-852 [850] [Liparetrus cooki is an unjustified emendation, see Allsopp (2023)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Endeavour River, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Allsopp, P.G. 2023. Confusion in the names of some Queensland Scarabaeoidea (coleoptera): original spelling, prevailing usage or homonymy. Australian Entomologist 50(2): 47-62 [50].

 

Generic Combinations

• Automolius (Liparetrus) cookii (Macleay, 1886). —
  Blackburn, T. 1906. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXVI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 263-324 [279]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

General References

Britton, E.B. 1978. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 60: 1-150 [7]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Apr-2024	Melolonthinae	20-Nov-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Vivian Sandoval
		12-Feb-2010	(import)