Species Cheiroplatys bifossus Blackburn, 1896

Museums

Cheiroplatys bifossus Blackburn, T. 1896. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 233-259 [243].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, VIC.
Paralectotype(s) SAMA I2318.
Subsequent designation references:
Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [88]; 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)).
Cheiroplatys accedens Blackburn, T. 1896. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 233-259 [245].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♂, Forest Reefs, NSW.
Paralectotype(s) SAMA 2 specimens (one with registration no. I184).
Subsequent designation references:
Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [88]; 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)).

SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, NSW, VIC, TAS.

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Larvae and adults subterranean and burrowing, larvae humus/plant root-feeder.

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	SCARABAEOIDEA	01-May-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)