History of changes

• Glycyphana Burmeister, H.C.C. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 3 xxii 827 pp. [345].

  Type species:

   Cetonia horsfieldii Hope, 1835 by subsequent designation, see Arrow, G.J. 1910. The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera Lamellicornia (Cetoniinae and Dynastinae). London : Taylor & Francis xiv 322 pp. 2 pls. [120].

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Schenkling, S. 1921. Scarabaeidae: Cetoninae. pp. 1-431 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Scarabaeidae III. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XXI Pt 72. [270] (also for extralimital synonymy)

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Cetonia felina Gory and Percheron, 1833 — Lea, A.M. 1914. Notes on Australian Cetoniides; with a list of species and descriptions of some new ones. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 38: 132-218 [273]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, Melanesia: Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Tasmania
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Distribution References

History of changes

• Caloglycyphana Mikšic, R. 1968. Einige Vorbemerkungen über die Einteilung der Gattung Glycyphana Burm. (Col.). 55. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Scarabaeiden. Folia Entomologica Hungarica ns 21: 137-145 [139] [first introduced as a subgenus of Glycyphana Burmeister, 1842].

  Type species:

   Cetonia binotata Gory & Percheron, 1833 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Oriental Region, Melanesia: Papua New Guinea.

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
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Distribution References

History of changes

• Eurynomia papua Wallace, A.R. 1867. Brief diagnoses of the novelties. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1867: 92-97 [Date published 30/Dec/1867] [95].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Papua New Guinea/77.15 ♀, Pulau Misool (as Mysol) Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH Mysol/77.15 ♀; BMNH Mysol/61.24 ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [125].
• Glycyphana ochreonotata Lea, A.M. 1914. Notes on Australian Cetoniides; with a list of species and descriptions of some new ones. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 38: 132-218 [197].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂, Coen River, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [126]; Cassis, G. & Weir, T. A. 1992. Cetoniinae. pp. 426-454 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 9 544 pp. [430] (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [125]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Schizorhina pulchra Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [203].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Gayndah, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [124].
• Glycyphana subdepressa Blackburn, T. 1890. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 147-156 [Date published Dec. 31, 1890] [151].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, N QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [124]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin, QLD, NSW.

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
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Glycyphaniola Mikšic, R. 1968. Einige Vorbemerkungen über die Einteilung der Gattung Glycyphana Burm. (Col.). 55. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Scarabaeiden. Folia Entomologica Hungarica ns 21: 137-145 [140] [first introduced as a subgenus of Glycyphana Burmeister, 1842].

  Type species:

   Cetonia modesta Fabricius, 1792 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, Melanesia: Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Tasmania
• Solomon Islands

Distribution References

History of changes

• Glycyphana (Glycyphaniola) australiana Mikšic, R. 1971. Revision der Gattung Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera, Cetoniinae), II. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 118: 1-153 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♂, Redlynch, QLD.
  Paratype(s) RMNH.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin, QLD, NSW.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Glycyphana (Glycyphaniola) brooksi Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype BROOKS, Mt Molloy, QLD.
  Paratype(s) BMNH; NMV; ANIC
  Comment: 13♂ 4♀ paratypes recorded, holdings between institutions not recorded.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Cetonia brunnipes Kirby, W. 1818. XXVIII. A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12: 454-482 pls XXI-XXIII [465].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [116].
• Cetonia conspersa Gory, H.L. & Percheron, A.R. 1833. Monographie de Cétoines et genres voisons, formant, dans les families naturelles de Latreille, la division des Scarabées Mélitophiles. Paris : J.B. Baillière 403 pp., 77 pls. [65].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH ♂, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
  Paralectotype(s) OUM ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [117].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [116]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin, QLD, NSW.

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: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Glycyphana (Glycyphaniola) darwinensis Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [119].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Port Darwin, NT.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 2♂ ♀; ANIC(MMUS) 4♂; BMNH 7♂ 2♀; EUQ 2♂; MHNB ♂; NMV ♀; SAMA ♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Glycyphana (Glycyphaniola) pusilla Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [115].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♂, Kuranda, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 4♂ 5♀; BMNH 8♂ 4♀; 5♂ 4♀; QM ♀; ZMB 2♂ 3♀.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Cetonia stolata Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997] [58] [nom. nov. for Cetonia fasciata Fabricius, 1775: 50].
• Cetonia fasciata Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [50] [junior homonym of Cetonia fasciata Fabricius, 1775: 46].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (Banks coll. "stolata Ins. No 46"), Australia (as nova Hollandia).
• Glycyphana perversa Schaum, H.R. 1844. Observations critiques sur la famille des lamellicornes Mélitophiles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 1: 333-426 [371] [objective synonym of Cetonia fasciata Fabricius, 1775: 50].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (Banks coll. "stolata Ins. No. 46"), Australia (as noua Hollandia).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bacchus, M.E. 1974. A revision of the Australian species of the genus Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 111-128 [113, 122]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Mikšic, R. 1971. Revision der Gattung Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera, Cetoniinae), II. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 118: 1-153 [105]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
• Solomon Islands

History of changes

• Glycyphana (Glycyphaniola) varicorensis thursdayana Mikšic, R. 1971. Revision der Gattung Glycyphana Burmeister (Coleoptera, Cetoniinae), II. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 118: 1-153 [105].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♂, Thursday Is., Torres Strait Ils, QLD.
  Paratype(s) RMNH ♀.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Glycyphana varicorensis Burmeister, H.C.C. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 3 xxii 827 pp. [351].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀, Vanikoro (as Baricoro), Solomon Ils.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Protaetia Burmeister, H.C.C. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 3 xxii 827 pp. [472].

  Type species:

   Protaetia spectabilis Schaum, 1841 by subsequent designation, see Arrow, G.J. 1910. The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera Lamellicornia (Cetoniinae and Dynastinae). London : Taylor & Francis xiv 322 pp. 2 pls. [136].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Palaearctic and Oriental Regions.

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Oriental Region

• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)
• Philippines

Distribution References

History of changes

• Cetonia acuminata Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [50].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1 specimen, Cape of Good Hope (as Cap B[on]. S[pei].), South Africa; ZMK 1 specimen, Cape of Good Hope (as Cap B[on]. S[pei].), South Africa.

Distribution

Other Regions

Cocos (Keeling) Islands terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Oriental Region

• Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

General References

Schenkling, S. 1921. Scarabaeidae: Cetoninae. pp. 1-431 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Scarabaeidae III. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XXI Pt 72. [251] (extralimital synonymy)

History of changes

• Protaetia advena Janson, O.E. 1877. Notices of new or little known Cetoniidae. Cistula Entomologica 2: 247-264 [260].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, Cape York, QLD (as NE Australia).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Protaetia andrewsi Gahan, C.J. 1900. Order 4. Coleoptera. pp. 89-127 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [98].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Christmas Is.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

History of changes

• Cetonia fusca Herbst, J.F.W. 1790. Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten, von C.G. Jablonsky, fortgesetzt von J.F.W. Herbst. Berlin : Pauli Vol. 3 324 pp. [257].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB, locality unknown.

  Secondary source:

   Arrow, G.J. 1910. The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera Lamellicornia (Cetoniinae and Dynastinae). London : Taylor & Francis xiv 322 pp. 2 pls. [155].
• Protaetia mandarinea Burmeister, H.C.C. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 3 xxii 827 pp. [481].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ♂ ♀ specimens, Philippines (as Philippinen).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Krikken, J. 1984. A new key to the suprageneric taxa in the beetle family Cetoniidae, with annotated lists of the known genera. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1984(210): 1-75 [57]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

General References

Schenkling, S. 1921. Scarabaeidae: Cetoninae. pp. 1-431 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Scarabaeidae III. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XXI Pt 72. [256] (extralimital synonymy)

Simpson, G.B. 1990. Immature stages of Protaetia fusca (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) with notes on biology. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 29: 67-73

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