Species Colpochila obesa (Blanchard, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Haplonycha obesa Blanchard, C.E. 1850. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection Entomologique. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coléoptères. Paris : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Vol. IV 128 pp. [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Haplonycha pectoralis Blanchard, C.E. 1850. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection Entomologique. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coléoptères. Paris : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Vol. IV 128 pp. [108].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Australia (as Nouv.-Holl.).
• Melolontha destructor Tepper, O. 1878. On the habits and description of a destructive beetle.—(Melolontha destructor). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 1877–78: 61-64 [64].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, near Monarto, SA.
• Haplonycha thoracica Blackburn, T. 1906. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXVI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 30: 263-324 [320].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 1986. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 4. Tribe Liparetrini: Genus Colpochila. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 118: 1-135 [64]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, Lake Eyre basin, VIC, NSW, QLD, SA.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

General References

Burmeister, H.C.C. 1855. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Phyllophaga Chaenochela. Berlin : Reimer Vol. 4 (2) x 570 pp. [228] (taxonomy)

McQuillan, P.B. 1985. The identification of root-feeding cockchafer larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) found in pastures in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 509-546 [527]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)