Species Automolius humilis (Blanchard, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Liparetrus humilis Blanchard, C.E. 1850. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection Entomologique. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coléoptères. Paris : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Vol. IV 128 pp. [105].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Australia (as Nouv.-Holl.).
• Liparetrus concolor Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [129].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 5 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.
• Liparetrus unicolor Masters, G. 1871. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Sydney : Publisher unknown 312 pp. [105] [nom. nov. for concolor Macleay, 1864 nec Erichson].

  Secondary source:

   Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [85].
• Automolus propygidialis Lea, A.M. 1917. Results of the South Australian Museum expedition to Strzelecki and Cooper creeks, September and October, 1916. (n) Insecta. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 41: 489-630, pls 33-37 [includes descriptions of some species not from the expedition] [560].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I7868, Lucindale, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [84]
• Britton, E.B. 1992. In Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 9. Coleoptera : Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS xii 544 pp. [188] (Automolus propygidialis Lea, 1917)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, NSW, QLD, SA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • 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] (genus name)

 

History of changes

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