Species Dermolepida albohirtum (Waterhouse, 1875)

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Species Dermolepida albohirtum (Waterhouse, 1875)

Greyback Cane Beetle

Lepidoderma albohirtum Waterhouse, C.O. 1875. Descriptions of new Coleoptera from Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1875(ii): 191-206 [202].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 2095 ♂, Bowen (as Port Bowen), QLD [20.07°S, 148.35°E].
Subsequent designation references:
Allsopp, P.G. 2020. Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950. Zootaxa 4885(4): 451–486 [Date published 27/11/2020].
Rhopaea aruense Lansberge, J.G.W. van 1879. Diagnoses de quelques espèces nouvelles de Buprestides et de Scarabaeides de la Malaise. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 22: 147-155 [cl].
Type data:
Syntype(s) Aru Ils, Indonesia.
Lepidoderma waterhousei Brenske, E. 1895. Uebersicht der Arten de Coleopteren-Gattung Lepidoderma Wath. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 1894(1895): 41-42 [42].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMB ♂, QLD.
Syntype(s) locality unknown.
Subsequent designation references:
Allsopp, P.G. 2020. Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950. Zootaxa 4885(4): 451–486 [Date published 27/11/2020].
Lepidoderma lansbergei Brenske, E. 1895. Uebersicht der Arten de Coleopteren-Gattung Lepidoderma Wath. Societas Entomologica. Stuttgart 1894(1895): 41-42 [42].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMB, Australia.
Syntype(s) locality unknown.
Subsequent designation references:
Allsopp, P.G. 2020. Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950. Zootaxa 4885(4): 451–486 [Date published 27/11/2020].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Britton, E.B. 1978. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 60: 1-150 [88]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Torres Strait Ils, Papua New Guinea.

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)

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

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva major pest of sugar cane, minor pest of maize.

General References

Cumpston, D. 1941. A summary of certain aspects of the scarab problem, and a contribution to a bibliography of the family Scarabaeidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66: 33-40

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)
04-Aug-2021	SCARABAEIDAE	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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