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Species Cyclocephala signaticollis Burmeister, 1847

Cyclocephala signaticollis Burmeister, H.C.C. 1847. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Xylophila et Pectinicornia. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 5 viii 584 pp. [63].
Type data:
Neotype ♂, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subsequent designation references:
Endrödi, S. 1966. Monographie der Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Lamellicornia). I. Teil. Entomologische Abhandlungen. Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 33: 1-457 [309].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Accidental introduction.

Introduced from South America.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Grass root-feeder.

General References

Barbero, E. & Palestrini, V. 2003. Coleoptera Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Scarabaeidae (Scarabaeinae and Dynastinae) collected in Australia. pp. 303-328 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [320] (new record)

Carne, P.B. 1956. Cyclocephala signaticollis Burmeister, an introduced pasture scarab (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 217-221 (biology)

Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. (morphlogy, biology)

Monteith, G. 2017. The Argentinian Scarab: the new kid on the block. News Bulletin, Entomological Society of Queensland 44(9): 171-209 [200] (recorded for Brisbane)

Nikitin, M.I. 1966. On the seasonal distribution of some scarab beetles (Col., Scarabaeidae) at Cabramatta, N.S.W. Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia N.S.W. 3: 34-35 (seasonal distribution)

History of changes

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

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