Species Cryptalaus sericeus (Candèze, 1874)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alaus sericeus Candèze, E. 1874. Revision de la monographie des Elatérides. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 4: i-viii 1-218 [148].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Rockhampton, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Van Zwaluwenburg, R.H. 1959. Some type designations, with notes on Pacific Elateridae (Coleoptera). Pacific Insects 1(4): 347-414 [Date published Dec. 25, 1959] [362]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [78] (interprets Van Zwaluwenburg's incorrect inference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also recorded from New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Heller, K.M. 1914. Coleoptera. Nova Guinea 9: 615-666 [618] (recorded specimens from New Guinea)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	16-Jan-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
		12-Feb-2010	(import)