Species Heterobostrychus aequalis (Waterhouse, 1884)
- Bostrichus aequalis Waterhouse, C.O. 1884. On the coleopterous insects collected by H.O. Forbes in the Timor-Laut Islands. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884: 213-219, pl. xvi [215].
- Bostrychus uncipennis Lesne, P. 1895. Descriptions de genre nouveaux et d'espèces nouvelle de Coléoptères de la famille des Bostrichides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 1895: 169-178 [173].
- Rhizopertha papuensis Macleay, W.J. 1886. The insects of the Fly River, New Guinea, "Coleoptera". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 136-157, 183-204 [154].
Introduction
This species is a timber borer and is most likely exotic to Australia. From Wylie and Peters (2016): Presence in Australia is unclear, with records from the 1950s and 1960s indicating the beetle was present but no breeding populations detected since. However, there have been three separate reports of H. aequalis in Cairns in 2013 and 2015, which were not linked to imported timber. Investigations are ongoing to determine the extent of the population, but it is thought to be not widely established.
Heterobostrychus aequalis is a notifiable pest nationally, and in the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Exotic pest. Distribution in Australia likely limited to Cairns only (B. Boyd, Department of Agriculture, pers. comm., 2016; see also Wylie & Peters, 2016).
Introduced.
IBRA
Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution References
General References
Wylie, F.R. & Peters, B.C. 2016. Lesser auger beetle Heterobostrychus aequalis (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Australia: absent or elusive? Austral Entomology 55: 330-333
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 01-Jul-2020 | BOSTRICHOIDEA | 22-Feb-2016 | MODIFIED | |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |