Species Carneodon pecuarius (Reiche, 1860)

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• Cheiroplatys pecuarius Reiche, L.J. 1860. Remarqués entomologiques description d'une nouvelle espèce de Coléoptère. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 8: 331-333 [332].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Adelaide (as Adélaïde), SA.
• Isodon puncticollis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [197].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K31452 (K436731) ♀, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [47]; Cassis, G. & Weir, T. A. 1992. Dynastinae. pp. 383-425 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 9 544 pp. (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Isodon subcornutus Fairmaire, L. 1879. Diagnoses de coléoptères Australiens et Polynésiens. Le Naturaliste 1: 46-100 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with biographical notes on authors and collectors. Sydney : R. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. viii 380 pp. [89].
• Heteronychus lucidus Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Part II. The Lamellicornes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 897-924 [920].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, King Sound, WA.
• Isodon picipennis Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Part II. The Lamellicornes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 897-924 [921].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, King Sound, WA.
• Trissodon denticeps Arrow, G.J. 1941. Systematic notes on beetles of the family Dynastidae and description of a few new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 8: 273-283 [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Pingelly, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [46]

 

Generic Combinations

• Neodon pecuarius (Reiche, 1860).
• Carneodon pecuarius (Reiche, 1860). —
  Özdikmen, H. 2009. Nomenclatural changes for five preoccupied scarab beetle genus group names (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Munis Entomology & Zoology 4(1): 139-147 [141]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: root-feeder.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean and burrowing, larvae humus/plant root-feeder, occassional pest of tomatoes, potatoes, carrots and sugarcane, possible pasture pest.

 

General References

Barbero, E. & Palestrini, V. 2003. Coleoptera Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Scarabaeidae (Scarabaeinae and Dynastinae) collected in Australia. pp. 303-328 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [323] (first record for NT)

Williams, G.A. 1977. A list of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) collected from lights at Palm Cove and Ellis Beach, North Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 4-6 (distribution)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-May-2019	Dynastinae	16-Apr-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)