Species Distocupes varians (Lea, 1902)

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• Cupes varians Lea, A.M. 1902. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 26[1901]: 481-513 [485].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (MMUS), Sydney, NSW
  Comment: of the three paratypes (ANIC/MMUS) designated by Lea in 1902, two were subsequently identified as Cupes youanga Neboiss, 1960 and one as Cupes eumana Neboiss, 1960 by Neboiss, A. 1960. On the family Cupedidae, Coleoptera. Proc. R. Soc. Vict. 72: 12–20 pls 4–5 [14].

  Type locality references:

  Neboiss, A. 1960. On the family Cupedidae, Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 72: 12-20 pls 4-5.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, open forest, rotting wood, volant, woodland.

 

General References

Neboiss, A. 1968. Larva and pupa of Cupes varians Lea, and some observations of its biology (Coleoptera: Cupedidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 28: 17-19 pl 7 (taxonomy)

Neboiss, A. 1984. Reclassification of Cupes Fabricius (s. lat.), with descriptions of new genera and species (Cupedidae: Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology 9: 443-477 [459] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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