Introduction

Byrrhidae occur worldwide and are almost entirely restricted to the temperate regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres with only Chaetophora Kirby & Spence (=Syncalypta Stephens) extending into the tropics. Two subfamilies are usually recognised: Byrrhinae and Syncalyptinae, the latter being sometimes recognised as a family in its own right containing four genera, Chaetophora, Curimopsis Ganglbauer, Microchaetes Hope, and Sierraclava Johnson (see El Moursy 1961, 1969; C. Johnson 1978; Johnson 1982). The family currently contains approximately 30 genera and 350 species worldwide (Lawrence 1991; recent literature). The Australian fauna contains 30 described species and is poorly understood at the generic level. This is a serious underestimate of the size of the fauna as many undescribed species are present in collections. Only three genera have been used for the Australian biota: Microchaetes, Morychus Erichson and Pedilophorus Steffahny. Pedilophorus contains the most described Australian species numbering some 20 species. It is a composite group that requires revision and, as Crowson (1980) has pointed out, many southern species have been incorrectly assigned to Holarctic genera.

Hope (1834) described the first Australian byrrhid from the Swan River Colony, erecting the genus Microchaetes to accommodate it. Boisduval (1835) described another Microchaetes collected on the voyage of the Astrolabe as a Byrrhus Linnaeus from an unknown locality, while Erichson (1842) described Microchaetes scoparius, a species that is abundant in Tasmania. Both King (1869) and Macleay (1871) described a species of Microchaetes each and Blackburn (1889, 1891, 1903) added another five species of which three have turned out to be synonyms of previously described Microchaetes species. Lea (1907) catalogued the Australian and Tasmanian byrrhids describing seven new species which he assigned to Pedilophorus although he noted that there was considerable variation in the vestiture of the beetles, ranging from smooth to tuberculate to hairy. Over the next 13 years Lea was to add another four Microchaetes and nine Pedilophorus to the fauna culminating in a revision of the group (Lea 1920). It should be noted that Lea's concept of the Byrrhidae also included species that are now considered to belong to other families as diverse as Chelonariidae, Sphindidae and Limnichidae. Wilson (1921) was the next to take an interest in the byrrhids describing two new species of Pedilophorus taken by sieving damp moss collected from tree fern trunks and old logs. Oke (1932) was the last person to take an interest in the byrrhids, describing a new Pedilophorus some specimens of which were reported to have been taken from inside a termite's nest at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Lawrence et al. (2013) reviewed Australian Byrrhinae, establishing six new genera and giving a key to all byrrhid genera found in Australia.

Byrrhid adults and larvae usually feed on mosses, liverworts and lichens, while some attack the roots of higher plants including wild grasses, oats, clover, various vegetables and lilies in North America (Essig 1958; El Moursy 1961; Watt 1971; Lawrence & Britton 1994; Klimaszewski & Watt 1997). The larvae can be found in the soil, in moss on tree branches and trunks or leaf litter in damp areas. Adults can be found feeding at night on moss covered tree trunks and branches particularly in areas with high humidity. Recently Guy & Gibbs (1985) have recorded that an undescribed byrrhid that feeds on a species of Cardamine in the Australian Alps around Mt Kosciusko transmits a tymovirus, the turnip yellow mosaic virus.

Diagnosis

Adult byrrhids are quite compact, ovoid beetles and when disturbed are capable of retracting their appendages tightly against the underside of their bodies as well as flexing the head ventrally so that they resemble small pebbles or pieces of gravel. This has led to the common name of pill beetles in various parts of the world. They range from 1.5 to 5.5 mm in length and are either dull black or metallic green with tubercles, clothed in bristles or scales or are glabrous. The antennae are 11-segmented and often suddenly thickened towards the apex giving the appearance of being weakly clubbed. The procoxae are transverse with exposed trochantins and the procoxal cavities are open behind both internally and externally. The prosternal process is broad and fits into a cavity on the mesosternum. The mesocoxal cavities are usually widely separated and partly closed by the mesepisternum. The hindwing has a short, oblique, open or closed radial cell and no anal (wedge) cell. There are five visible abdominal sternites, the first two being connate. Segment 8 bears functional spiracles. The tarsi are either 4-4-4 or 5-5-5 and usually have a membranous appendage on segment 3. The legs are often capable of being retracted into cavities on the undersurface (Lawrence & Britton 1991; 1994).

Two distinctive types of byrrhid larvae can be recognised. An ovate, flattened, heavily sclerotised larvae with a short ninth segment and a subcylindrical, more lightly sclerotised larvae with an enlarged ninth tergite. The head has five or six stemmata on each side. The mandibles have a basal brush of hairs, lack a mola and articulated prostheca. The maxillae have well developed lacinia, palpiform galea and large articulating area. Tergite 9 does not have any urogomphi or an operculum. The spiracles are biforous and lack a closing apparatus (Lawrence 1991; Lawrence & Britton 1994).

General References

Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 12: 132-148 [Date published Dec. 1889]

Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891]

Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182

Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835]

Crowson, R.A. 1980. On amphipolar distribution patterns in some cool climate groups of Coleoptera. Entomologia Generalis 6(2/4): 281-292

El-Moursy, A.A. 1961. A tentative classification of and a key to the North American genera of the family Byrrhidae (new sense) and family Syncalyptidae (new status) (Coleoptera, Polyphaga, Byrrhoidea). The Coleopterists Bulletin 15: 9-15

El-Moursy, A.A. 1969. The North American genera of the family Syncalyptidae El-Moursy. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique d'Egypte 53: 131-135

Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5

Essig, E.O. 1958. Insects and Mites of Western North America. New York : Macmillan xiii 1050 pp.

Guy, P.L. & Gibbs, A.J. 1985. Further studies on turnip yellowmosaic tymovirus isolates from an endemic Australian Cardamine. Plant Pathology 34: 532-544

Hope, F.W. 1834. Descriptions of some hitherto uncharacterized exotic Coleoptera, chiefly from New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1(1): 11-20 pls i-ii [Date published Nov. 7, 1834]

Johnson, C. 1978. Notes on Byrrhidae (Col.); with special reference to, and a species new to, the British fauna. Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation 90: 141-147

Johnson, P.J. 1982. A new genus and species of California pill beetle (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 58(1): 31-37

King, R.L. 1869. On the Byrrhides of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(1): 71–75

Klimaszewski, J. & Watt, J.C. 1997. Coleoptera: family-group review and keys to identification. (Fauna of New Zealand; no. 37). Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand : Manaaki Whenua Press 199 pp.

Lawrence, J.F. 1991. Order Coleoptera. pp. 144-658 in Stehr, F.W. (ed.). Immature Insects. Coleoptera and Diptera. Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall-Hunt Vol. 2 xvi 975 pp.

Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329

Lawrence, J.F. & Britton, E.B. 1994. Australian Beetles. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press x 192 pp.

Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146

Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290

Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205

Oke, C. 1932. Notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57: 148-172 [Date published 15 Sept. 1932]

Watt, J.C. 1971. Entomology of the Aucklands and other islands south of New Zealand: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Byrrhidae, Ptinidae, Tenebrionidae. Pacific Insects Monographs 27: 193-224

Wilson, F.E. 1921. New Australian Coleoptera with notes on some previously described species, Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 34(1): 33-41 [Date published 31 October 1921]

History of changes

• Akidomorychus Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [315].

  Type species:

   Pedilophorus polychromus Lea, 1920 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

History of changes

• Pedilophorus comatus Oke, C. 1932. Notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57: 148-172 [Date published 15 Sept. 1932] [158].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T1552, Bacchus Marsh, VIC.
  Paratype(s) NMV T1303 1, Anakie Range, VIC; NMV T1301-1302 2 (on one card), Anakies, VIC; NMV T1550-1551 2 (on one card), no locality.

Generic Combinations

• Akidomorychus comatus (Oke, 1932). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [318]

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus polychromus Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [287].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10702 (unique specimen), Dorrigo, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Akidomorychus polychromus (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [318]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Byrrhus raucus Blackburn, T. 1891. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 14: 65-153 [Date published July 1891] [133].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA 1 (exact number of syntypes unknown; labelled cotype), Dividing Range, VIC; SAMA 1 (labelled cotype), Victorian Alps, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Akidomorychus raucus (Blackburn, 1891). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [318]
• Pedilophorus raucus (Blackburn, 1891).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus venustus Wilson, F.E. 1921. New Australian Coleoptera with notes on some previously described species, Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 34(1): 33-41 [Date published 31 October 1921] [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV, Fern Tree Gully, VIC.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 2, Ferntree Gully, VIC; NMV 1, Ferntree Gully, VIC; NMV 6, Warburton, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Akidomorychus venustus (Wilson, 1921). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [318]

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Brachybyrrhulus Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [318].

  Type species:

   Pedilophorus discicollis Lea, 1920 by original designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

SA, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; Vic: Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

History of changes

• Pedilophorus discicollis Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [285].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10699 (unique specimen), Mildura, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Brachybyrrhulus discicollis (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [320]

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Brachybyrrhulus malleecola Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [321].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, South Australia, 31 km NW of Renmark, 2.v-8.vi.1995, flight/ground intercept trap, K.R. Pullen [33.59S 140.30E].
  Paratype(s) 12 specimens (In various collections (ANIC, SAM, MV, SMZ)), Same as holotype; ANIC 4 specimens, Same locality as holotype, 8.vi-6.vii.1995, flight intercept/pitfall trap, K.R. Pullen; ANIC 2 specimens, South Australia, 31 km NW of Renmark, Dry Frogamerry paddock, Calperum Stn., 30.iii-2.v.1995, flight intercept trap, K.R. Pullen [33.59S 140.30E].

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA

SA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

History of changes

• Idiothrix Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [311].

  Type species:

   Pedilophorus carinaticeps Lea, 1920 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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)

History of changes

• Pedilophorus carinaticeps Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [284].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10697 ♂, Waratah, TAS.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♀.

Generic Combinations

• Idiothrix carinaticeps (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [315]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes Hope, F.W. 1834. Descriptions of some hitherto uncharacterized exotic Coleoptera, chiefly from New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1(1): 11-20 pls i-ii [Date published Nov. 7, 1834] [12].

  Type species:

   Microchaetes sphaericus Hope, 1834 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Undetermined species introduced to New Zealand and Japan

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, SA, Vic: South East Corner (SEC) ; NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

General References

Suzumura, A.L. & Tsuji, Y. Records of the introduced Australian genus Microchaetes Hope, 1834 (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) in Japan with a new Prefectural record from Miyazaki. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76(1): 56-60

History of changes

• Byrrhus australis Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [149].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (exact number of syntypes unknown), Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande); exact locality unknown.

Distribution

Recorded from "Australia".

Extra Distribution Information

Unknown.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes bryophilus Lea, A.M. 1912. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part IX. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 426-478, pl. XVII [Date published 8 Feb. 1912] [462].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Waratah, TAS.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 2, Waratah, TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Microchaetes fascicularis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [171].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K209319 1 (exact number of syntypes unknown), Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Microchaetes solidus Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [175].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA (only one specimen), QLD; exact locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [274]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes hystricosus Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [276].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10711 (unique specimen; current reg. no. 25-037610), Strahan, TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes minor King, R.L. 1869. On the Byrrhides of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(1): 71–75 [73].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA 1 (labelled cotype), Parramatta, NSW; AM K209320 1 (exact number of syntypes unknown), Parramatta, NSW [33° 48' 55" S 151° 4" E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes scoparius Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [153].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB (exact number of syntypes unknown), TAS; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes setosus Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10708 (unique specimen; current reg. no. 25-037612), Cue, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Murchison (MUR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: inquiline (host(s): Odontamachus ruficeps F. Smith, 1858 [FORMICIDAE]), terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes sphaericus Hope, F.W. 1834. Descriptions of some hitherto uncharacterized exotic Coleoptera, chiefly from New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1(1): 11-20 pls i-ii [Date published Nov. 7, 1834] [13].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Swan River, AUSTRALIA (as Nova Hollandia).
• Microchaetes coloratus Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [176].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA (exact number of syntypes unknown), Eyre (as Eyre's) Peninsula, SA.
• Microchaetes nigrovarius Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [175].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA (exact number of syntypes unknown), SA; exact locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [274]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microchaetes tuberculatus Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10707, Penola, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 7 (labelled cotypes), Penola, SA; SAMA 2 (labelled cotypes), Mt Lofty, SA; AM.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Nothochaetes Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [309].

  Type species:

   Pedilophorus fasciculatus Lea, 1920 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes

• Pedilophorus fasciculatus Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [286].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10700 (unique specimen), Strahan, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Nothochaetes fasciculatus (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [311]

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Nothochaetes howensis Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [311].

  Type data:

   Holotype QMBA ♂, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, Gower Summit, D. Gully, 850 m, 16.xi.1979, QM Berlesate, moss on trees, G.B. Monteith.
  Paratype(s) 21 specimens (In various collections (QMBA, ANIC, AM, MV, SMZ)), Same as holotype; 5 specimens (In QMBA and ANIC), New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, Gower Summit (NE), 850 m, 9.xi.1979, moss on trees, G.B. Monteith; ANIC 5 specimens, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, Gower, 850 m, 26.v.1980, berlese rotted wood with fungi & moss, S. & J. Peck; QMBA 1 specimen, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island, Big Creek at Mountain Inn, 11.xi.1979, sieved litter, G.B. Monteith.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

"known only from Mt. Gower on Lord Howe Island"

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes

• Notolioon Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [302].

  Type species:

   Pedilophorus gemmatus Lea, 1920 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA) ; Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), 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) ; Tas, Vic: Flinders (FLI) ; Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

History of changes

• Pedilophorus atronitens Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [287].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10703 (unique specimen), Lorne, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon atronitens (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus bryophagus Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146 [140].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 4 (exact number of syntypes unknown), Hobart, TAS (in the original description the type locality is given as base of Mount Wellington, TAS).

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon bryophagus (Lea, 1907). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Notolioon cardamine Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, New South Wales, Blue Lake, Kosciusko N.P., 4.ii.1981, on Cardamine, A. Gibbs [36.24S 148.19E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 2 specimens, Same locality as holotype, 19.iii.1980, recumbent stems of Cardamine sp., A. Gibbs; 38 specimens (In various collections (AM, ANIC, MV, SAM, SMZ, QMBA)), Same as holotype.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA)

History of changes

• Pedilophorus carissimus Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146 [143].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 1 (exact number of syntypes unknown), summit of Mt Wellington, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon carissimus (Lea, 1907). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus dives Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146 [144].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA (exact number of syntypes unknown), Frankford, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon dives (Lea, 1907). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus gemmatus Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [282].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10690, Waratah,TAS.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 2, Waratah, TAS; SAMA 2, Waratah, TAS; NMV T2083 1, Waratah, TAS; AM 1.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon gemmatus (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus globosus Wilson, F.E. 1921. New Australian Coleoptera with notes on some previously described species, Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 34(1): 33-41 [Date published 31 October 1921] [34].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂, Warburton, VIC.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 5, Warburton, VIC; AM 1; whereabouts unknown 5.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon globosus (Wilson, 1921). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus griffithi Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146 [141].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 1 (erroneously labelled holotype), Mt Wellington, TAS; SAMA 3 (labelled cotypes), Mt Wellington, TAS; SAMA 4, Mt Wellington, TAS; NMV T2080-2081 2, Mt Wellington, TAS
  Comment: paratypes erroneously labelled 'syntype'.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon griffithi (Lea, 1907). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus maculatipes Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [284].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10698, Strahan, TAS.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 1, Strahan, TAS; SAMA 2 (in moss and lichens; as cotypes), Strahan, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon maculatipes (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus multicolor Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146 [142].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 1 (erroneously labelled holotype), Mt Wellington, TAS; SAMA 2 (erroneously labelled as 'syntype'), Mt Wellington, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon multicolor (Lea, 1907). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus nodipennis Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [283].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10696 (unique specimen), west coast, TAS
  Comment: specimen not located in SAMA in 1999.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon nodipennis (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus simplicicornis Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146 [141].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA, Mt Wellington, TAS; SAMA 1 (erroneously labelled holotype), Mt Wellington, TAS; SAMA 3 (erroneously labelled paratypes), Mt Wellington, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon simplicicornis (Lea, 1907). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pedilophorus viridinitens Lea, A.M. 1920. On Australian Coleoptera. Family Byrrhidae. Part II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 273-290 [286].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I10701, TAS; exact locality unknown.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 1, TAS; exact locality unknown.

Generic Combinations

• Notolioon viridinitens (Lea, 1920). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [307]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pseudomorychus Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [321].

  Type species:

   Byrrhus torrensensis Blackburn, 1889 by original designation.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

History of changes

• Pedilophorus mixtus Lea, A.M. 1907. Catalogue of the Australian and Tasmanian Byrrhidae; with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1907: 135-146 [140].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2 (exact number of syntypes unknown), Mt Wellington, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Pseudomorychus mixtus (Lea, 1907). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [327]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, in moss, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Byrrhus torrensensis Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 12: 132-148 [Date published Dec. 1889] [138].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2, River Torrens [Adelaide], SA.

Generic Combinations

• Pseudomorychus torrensensis (Blackburn, 1889). —
  Lawrence, J.F., Ślipiński, A., Jager, O. & Putz, A. 2013. The Australian Byrrhinae (Coleoptera: Byrrhidae) with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 3745(3): 301-329 [327]
• Morychus torrensensis (Blackburn, 1889).

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cryptozoic, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes