Species Dicranolaius bellulus (Boisduval, 1835)

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Regional Maps

• Malachius bellulus Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1838. Insectes. pp. 57-302 in Duperrey, L.I. (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le minestère et conformément aux instructions de S.E.M. le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ministre de la Marine; et publié sous les auspices de son Excellence Mgr le Cte de Chabrol, Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies. Paris : A. Bertrand. [Text; Zoologie 2(2), Division 1] (plates 1 and 2 of “Insectes” published in 1830; text in 1838).

  Type data:

   Neotype ANIC ♂, Fowlers Gap Res. Stn., NSW [31.05S 141.42E].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liu, Z., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2017. Revision of the soft-winged flower beetle genus Dicranolaius Champion, 1921 (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae) from Australia. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 67(3): 405-548 [413, Fig. 1].
• Malachius bellulus Boisduval, J.B.A.D. de 1835. Faune Entomologique de l'Ocean Pacifique, Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté pendant les Années 1826–29, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. 2 vols. Paris : Tastu vii 716 pp. [135].

  Type data:

   Holotype Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW.
• Laius cyanocephalus Lea, A.M. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 521-645 [Date published 19 May, 1899: dated 1898] [563].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA 25-035085 ♂, Whitton, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liu, Z., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2017. Revision of the soft-winged flower beetle genus Dicranolaius Champion, 1921 (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae) from Australia. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 67(3): 405-548 [413].
• Laius nidicola Lea, A.M. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 521-645 [Date published 19 May, 1899: dated 1898] [570].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA 25-034997 ♂, Pelsart I., WA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 25-034997 1♂, 1♀, Pelsart I., WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liu, Z., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2017. Revision of the soft-winged flower beetle genus Dicranolaius Champion, 1921 (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae) from Australia. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 67(3): 405-548 [413].
• Laius intermedius Lea, A.M. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 521-645 [Date published 19 May, 1899: dated 1898] [571].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA 25-035123 ♂, Swan R. WA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 25-035123 1♂, 1♀, Swan R. WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Liu, Z., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2017. Revision of the soft-winged flower beetle genus Dicranolaius Champion, 1921 (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae) from Australia. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 67(3): 405-548 [413].
• Laius orcicornis Lea, A.M. 1899. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 521-645 [Date published 19 May, 1899: dated 1898] [571].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA 25-034998 ♂, Mount Barker, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 25-034998 2♀, Mount Barker, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Liu, Z., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2017. Revision of the soft-winged flower beetle genus Dicranolaius Champion, 1921 (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae) from Australia. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 67(3): 405-548 [413, Fig. 1]

Generic Combinations

• Dicranolaius bellulus (Boisduval, 1835).

Introduction

The status of the type specimens for this species are unknown.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Type locality: Port Jackson, New South Wales.

General References

Liu, Z., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2015. Notes on Australian Laius Guérin-Méneville, Dicranolaius Champion and Intybia Pascoe with description of new species related to Dicranolaius c-purpureus (Lea) (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae). Zootaxa 3936(2): 272–280 [274] (notes on names)

Liu, Z., Ślipiński, A. & Pang, H. 2016. Contribution to the knowledge of the Australian Dicranolaius Champion (Coleoptera: Melyridae: Malachiinae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 66(1): 101–112 [102]

History of changes