Species Automolius major (Blackburn, 1906)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Automolus major 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 [286].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, N QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [86]; Houston, W.W.K. & Weir, T.A. 1992. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 9. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS xii 544 pp. (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

N QLD, locality unknown.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)