Species Comophorina testaceipennis (Blanchard, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Comophorus testaceipennis 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. [106].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, eastern Australia (as Nouv.-Holl. orient.).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Locality in SA unknown.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

General References

Britton, E.B. 1987. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 5. Tribes Scitalini and Comophorini. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 685-799 [761] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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