Introduction

The world fauna of Elaterinae comprises some 200 genera and 3500 species among which 21 genera and 92 species have been described from Australia (Calder 1998). No comprehensive revision of the elaterine species of Australia exists. Carter, in 1939, described eight new species of Melanoxanthus Eschscholtz and provided a key to all the species known at the time. Neboiss (1975) revised the genus Ophidius Candèze and erected Yalganus to accommodate species of Ophidius and Dicteniophorus Candèze that lacked tarsal pads. Gullan (1977) revised the genus Anilicus Candèze, erected a new genus Augenotus Gullan for two species previously included in Anilicus, and provided notes on the related genera Anilicoides Candèze and Melanoxanthus. Calder (1996) has provided an overview of the genera, erecting two new genera, Idiomilta and Rangsia and recorded the existence of Melanotus Eschscholtz in Australia (Calder 1983).

The first two described Australian elaterines were Elater nigroterminatus and Elater xanthomus (W.S. Macleay, 1826) collected on Captain Phillip P. King's survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia during 1818 and 1822. The former has been synonymised with Elater melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1781) which is now included in the genus Melanoxanthus, species of which are mostly tropical in distribution, and the latter is included in the genus Anilicus. Boisduval (1835) described three species collected on the voyage of the Astrolabe, and Germar (1844, 1848) another two species, one of which is a synonym. Erichson (1842) described five species mostly from Tasmania, Candèze (1859, 1863, 1865, 1878a, 1878b, 1882, 1887, 1889, 1893, 1897, 1900) described a total of 37 new species and erected nine genera and W.J. Macleay (1872, 1888) described six species from Gayndah, Queensland and the Kimberley, Western Australia. Blackburn (1889, 1892, 1911) decribed five species and erected new genera for two unusual elaterids found in the arid interior of Australia. Schwarz (1902a, 1902b, 1903, 1906, 1907) described a total of 13 new species one of which is a synonym, and Lea (1908, 1929) described seven new species from King Is., Norfolk Is. and Lord Howe Is. Blair (1935) described Megapenthes macdougalli from specimens collected around Mackay, Queensland, Carter (1939) described nine new species, and Elston (1930) described Ascesis testaceus as new. During the latter half of the 20th Century only three other workers have published on genera included in this group: Neboiss (1960, 1975), Gullan (1977) and Calder (1983, 1996).

Elaterines are for the most part drab-coloured beetles although some genera are brightly coloured. Anilicus is strikingly marked in red and black, while Ophidius, Rangsia Calder and Yalganus species are mostly orange with black markings. Some Melanoxanthus species are also coloured in contrasting colours. Elaterine species range in length from 4 to 31 mm.

Fifteen of the twenty-one Australian genera are endemic. Anchastus LeConte, Megapenthes Kiesenwetter, Melanotus and Melanoxanthus are widespread in the Holarctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Oriental regions. Simodactylus Candèze is widespread throughout Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia as well as extending into the Oriental Region. Ochosternus Candèze is also known from New Zealand and New Caledonia.

Biological information on any Australian elaterine species is scarce. Larvae of several species of Megapenthes, Melanoxanthus, Melanotus and Paranilicus Candèze have been collected from rotten, decaying wood either in tree trunks or underneath bark, while Megapenthes automolus Candèze has been reared from a pupa found in the soil.

General References

Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1387-1506 [Date published 22 March 1889]

Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(2): 283-300 [Date published 22 Nov. 1892]

Blackburn, T. 1911. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XLI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 173-203 [Date published Dec. 31, 1911]

Blair, K.G. 1935. Two new species of Australian Elateridae (Col.). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 71: 102

Boisduval, J.B.A.D. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 2 vii 267 pp.

Calder, A.A. 1983. Melanotus Eschscholtz, a genus new to Australia (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22(3): 257-260 [Date published Aug. 26, 1983]

Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401

Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp.

Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543

Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534

Candèze, E. 1865. Elatérides nouveaux. Mémoires Couronnés par l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 17: 1-63

Candèze, E. 1878a. Elatérides nouveaux. 2. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: li-lxi, lxxv-lxxxv, cxxxv-cxliii, clxi-c [pages: lxxv–lxxxv, cxxxv–cxliii, clxi–clxxii, clxxxix–cxcix]

Candèze, E. 1878b. Relevé des Elatérides recueillis dans les Iles Malaises, à la Nouvelle-Guinée et au Cap York, par MM. G. Doria, O. Beccari et L.M. D'Albertis. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 12: 99-143

Candèze, E. 1882. Elatérides nouveaux 3. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 9: 1-117

Candèze, E. 1887. Description d'élatérides nouveaux, provenant de Normantown [sic]: Baie de Carpentaria (Australie septentrionale). Notes from the Leyden Museum 9: 285-290

Candèze, E. 1889. Elatérides nouveaux 4. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 33: 67-123

Candèze, E. 1893. Elatérides nouveaux. Cinquième fascicule. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 18: 1-76

Candèze, E. 1897. Elatérides nouveaux. Sixième fascicule. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 29: 1-88

Candèze, E. 1900. Elatérides nouveaux. Septième fascicule. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 77-101

Carter, H.J. 1939. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. XI. (Mostly Elateridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64(3-4): 297–330, pls VIII, IX

Elston, A.H. 1930. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1912. 50. Elateridae. Arkiv för Zoologi 22A(1): 1-22 [Date published Sept. 27, 1930]

Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5

Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997]

Germar, E.F. 1844. Bemerkungen über Elateriden. Zeitschrift für Entomologie (Breslau) 5: 133-192

Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247

Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230

Lea, A.M. 1908. The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 20(2): 143-207 [Date published March 31, 1908]

Lea, A.M. 1929. Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 203-244

Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318

Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of the vicinity of King's Sound, N.W. Australia. Part III.–The Sternoxes, Family Buprestidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3(3): 1227-1246 [Date published Dec. 7, 1888]

Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259]

Neboiss, A. 1960. The genera Elatichrosis Hyslop and Lingana, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 8(2): 289-306 [Date published Aug. 31, 1960]

Neboiss, A. 1975. The genera Ophidius Candèze and Yalganus gen. nov. (Elateridae: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 36: 25-32 [Date published May 27, 1975]

Schwarz, O. 1902a. Neue australische Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1902(ii): 358-363 [Date published Oct. 31, 1902]

Schwarz, O. 1902b. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902]

Schwarz, O. 1903. Neue Elateriden aus Neu-Guinea und Australien. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1903(ii): 377-398 [Date published Aug. 31, 1903]

Schwarz, O. 1906. Neue Elateriden aus Australien. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1906(ii): 353-369 [Date published Sept. 10, 1906]

Schwarz, O. 1907. 18 neue Elateriden-Arten von Australien. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 68(1): 70-86 [Date published May 31, 1907]

History of changes

• Acroniopus Erichson, W.F. 1843. Bericht über die wissenschaftlichen Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der Insecten, Arachniden, Crustaceen, und Entomostraceen während des Jahres 1842. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 9: 149-288 [175] [nom. nov. for Atelopus Erichson, 1842].
• Atelopus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [142] [junior primary homonym of Atelopus Duméril & Bibron, 1841(AMPHIBIA)].

  Type species:

   Atelopus humilis Erichson, 1842 by subsequent designation, see Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 621-673 [630].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

History of changes

• Acroniopus ater Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [438].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NHRM, VIC; exact locality unknown; BMNH 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Acroniopus fuliginosus Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [437].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande); exact locality unknown; BMNH 2♀.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Elater granulatipennis Lea, A.M. 1908. The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 20(2): 143-207 [Date published March 31, 1908] [156].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NMV T437–440 4 specimens, Sydney, NSW; SAMA ♂ ♀ (on 1 card), Sydney, NSW; SAMA 1 specimen, King Is., TAS.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Atelopus humilis Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [143].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♀, Woolnorth, TAS.

  Type locality references:

  Hayek, C.M.F. von 1973. A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 20: 1-309 [Date published Oct. 18, 1973] [165].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Atelopus infimus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [143].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♂, Woonorth, TAS.

  Type locality references:

  Hayek, C.M.F. von 1973. A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 20: 1-309 [Date published Oct. 18, 1973] [165].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Acroniopus marginicollis Schwarz, O. 1906. Neue Elateriden aus Australien. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1906(ii): 353-369 [Date published Sept. 10, 1906] [369].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB 1 specimen, Australia; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Acroniopus rufipennis Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [259].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K33070 ♀, Gayndah, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM K33070 ♀ (on same card as lectotype), Gayndah, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [228]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [118] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Anilicus flavipennis Candèze, E. 1878. Elatérides nouveaux. 2. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: li-lxi, lxxv-lxxxv, cxxxv-cxliii, clxi-c [pages: lxxv–lxxxv, cxxxv–cxliii, clxi–clxxii, clxxxix–cxcix] [cxcii].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RIB, Rockhampton, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [228]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [118] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [228]

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Elater sydneyanus Boisduval, J.B.A.D. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 2 vii 267 pp. [109].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anchastus LeConte, J.L. 1853. Revision of the Elateridae of the United States. Transactions of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 405-508 [459].

  Type species:

   Anchastus digitatus LeConte, 1853 by subsequent designation, see Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 621-673 [627].

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

History of changes

• Anchastus australis Candèze, E. 1878. Elatérides nouveaux. 2. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: li-lxi, lxxv-lxxxv, cxxxv-cxliii, clxi-c [pages: lxxv–lxxxv, cxxxv–cxliii, clxi–clxxii, clxxxix–cxcix] [lxxxv].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, VIC; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anchastus discoidalis Gahan, C.J. in Waterhouse, C.O., Gahan, C.J. & Arrow, G.J. 1900. Order 4.-Coleoptera. New species descriptions. pp. 89-127 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [100].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3 specimens, Christmas Is.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Is., Indian Ocean.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: rotting wood, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anilicoides Candèze, E. 1893. Elatérides nouveaux. Cinquième fascicule. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 18: 1-76 [52].

  Type species:

   Anilicoides depressus Candèze, 1893 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

General References

Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [225] (key to species)

History of changes

• Anilicoides depressus Candèze, E. 1893. Elatérides nouveaux. Cinquième fascicule. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 18: 1-76 [52].

  Type data:

   Lectotype IZUC, Peak Downs, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [226]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [119] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Clermont, Peak Downs, 16 mls W of Charleville.

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anilicus haemorrhoidalis Candèze, E. 1889. Elatérides nouveaux 4. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 33: 67-123 [120].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RIB ?♀, Australia; exact locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [226]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [119] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Bullsbrook, Guildford, Pinjarra.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anilicus Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [328].

  Type species:

   Anilicus attenuatus Candèze, 1863 by subsequent designation, see Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 621-673 [627].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

General References

Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [210] (key to species)

History of changes

• Anilicus attenuatus Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [330].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RIB, Melbourne, VIC; BMNH ♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anilicus loricatus Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [331].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anilicus parvus Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [220].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T16791 ♂ (acc. number published as T4582), Jandowae, QLD.
  Paratype(s) NMV T16792 ♀ (labelled allotype, acc. number published as T4583), Jandowae, QLD; NMV T16793 ♂ (acc. number published as T4584), Bogan River, NSW.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), 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), 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
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anilicus rectilineatus Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [218].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T16789 ♂ (acc. number published as T4580), Woori Yallock, VIC.
  Paratype(s) AM ♀; NMV T16790 ♂ (acc. number published as T4581); QM T-7231 ♀; SAMA ♂, Sydney, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Elater xanthomus Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [441].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀, Australia; exact locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [216]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [120] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Ampedus semiflavus Germar, E.F. 1844. Bemerkungen über Elateriden. Zeitschrift für Entomologie (Breslau) 5: 133-192 [163].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMB ♂, Sydney, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [216].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [214]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Antoligostethus Blackburn, T. 1911. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XLI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 173-203 [Date published Dec. 31, 1911] [203].

  Type species:

   Antoligostethus lucidus Blackburn, 1911 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

History of changes

• Antoligostethus lucidus Blackburn, T. 1911. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XLI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 35: 173-203 [Date published Dec. 31, 1911] [203].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Roebuck Bay [Broome], WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Broome, Kununurra, Wyndham.

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Acroniopus pallidus Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1387-1506 [Date published 22 March 1889] [1423].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♂, NT; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Ascesis Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [440].

  Type species:

   Ascesis australis Candèze, 1863 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: N coastal

History of changes

• Ascesis australis Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [441].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RIB, Moreton Bay, QLD and Sydney (as Sidney), NSW; BMNH 4♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Ascesis campyloides Candèze, E. 1897. Elatérides nouveaux. Sixième fascicule. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 29: 1-88 [77].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, NSW (as Nouvelle-Galles du Sud); exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Pristilophus impurus Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [180].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB ♂, Adelaide, SA; BMNH 2♂.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Lofty Ranges, SA.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Ascesis mastersii Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [260].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM K192804, K192805 2♂, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E]; ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Ascesis testaceus Elston, A.H. 1930. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1912. 50. Elateridae. Arkiv för Zoologi 22A(1): 1-22 [Date published Sept. 27, 1930] [21].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM K192806-192809 4 specimens, Noonkanbah, Kimberley, WA; NHRM 2♂; NMV ♂ (labelled cotype).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Augenotus Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [221].

  Type species:

   Melanoxanthus quadriguttatus Erichson, 1842 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

History of changes

• Augenotus aurantius Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [224].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T16794 ♂ (acc. number published as T4585), Buxton, Marysville, VIC.
  Paratype(s) NMV T16795–16797 ♂ 2♀ (acc. numbers published as T4586–4588); SAMA ♂.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Melanoxanthus australis Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543 [520].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande); exact locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) RIB.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [223]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [121] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Melanoxanthus quadriguttatus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [139].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB ♂, Woolnorth, TAS, see Hayek (1973: 165); ZMB ♂, Woolnorth, TAS, see Hayek (1973: 165).

  Type locality references:

  Hayek, C.M.F. von 1973. A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 20: 1-309 [Date published Oct. 18, 1973].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Diadysis Candèze, E. 1882. Elatérides nouveaux 3. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 9: 1-117 [98].

  Type species:

   Diadysis morsi Candèze, 1882 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

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), 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: NE coastal

History of changes

• Diadysis morsi Candèze, E. 1882. Elatérides nouveaux 3. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 9: 1-117 [99].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Cape York, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

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), 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: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [441].

  Type species:

   Dicteniophorus fusiformis Candèze, 1863 by original designation, see Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 621-673 [640].

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ELATERIDAE: Dicteniophorus dubius Schwarz, 1903 [= Heligmus glyphoderus (Candèze, 1865)] — Quelle, F. 1934. Über Anilicopsis Schwarz (Col. Elater.). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 5: 33-34 [33] (synonymised D. dubius Schwarz, 1903 with Heligmus glyphoderus Candèze, 1865, a South American (Brazilian) species)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

General References

Kundrata, R., Gunter, N.L., Douglas, H. & Bocak, L. 2016. Next step toward a molecular phylogeny of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): redefinition of Pityobiinae, with a description of a new subfamily Parablacinae from the Australasian Region. Austral Entomology 55(3): 291–302

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus badiipennis Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [446].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia (as Nlle Hollande).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus bifoveatus Carter, H.J. 1939. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. XI. (Mostly Elateridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64(3-4): 297–330, pls VIII, IX [322].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K192684 ♂, Ellenborough, Hastings River district, NSW [31° 26' S 152° 28' E].
  Paratype(s) AM ♂; NMV ♂ (not registered), Ellenborough, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus elegans Carter, H.J. 1939. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. XI. (Mostly Elateridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64(3-4): 297–330, pls VIII, IX [322].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K192685 ♂ (i.1928), National Park, Macpherson Range, QLD [28° 16' 15" S 153° 7' 1" E].
  Paratype(s) AM ♂ 4♀; ANIC 2 specimens; BMNH 2♂.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus fusiformis Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [444].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, northern Australia (as nord de la Nlle Hollande).

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Female brachypterous, male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus lineatus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 63(1): 194-316 [Date published Jul. 1, 1902] [308].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB 1 specimen, NSW (as Neu-Süd-Gallia); exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus melanoderus Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [444].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂, Melbourne, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus quadrifoveatus Carter, H.J. 1939. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. XI. (Mostly Elateridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64(3-4): 297–330, pls VIII, IX [324].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K192689 ♂, Tweed River, NSW [28° 20' 28" S 153° 22' 9" E].
  Paratype(s) AM 2♂; ANIC ♂.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Ludius ramifer Eschscholtz, J.F. 1829. Elaterites, Eintheilung derselben in Gattungen. In, Thon. Entomol. Arch.2(1): 31–35. [34].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB ♂, Australia (as Nova Hollandia); exact locality unknown.
• Elater hunteri Boisduval, J.B.A.D. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 2 vii 267 pp. [107].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 4♂, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande); exact locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Neboiss, A. 1956. A check list of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 22(2): 1-75 [Date published Jul. 25, 1956] [61]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Female brachypterous, male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus robustus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 63(1): 194-316 [Date published Jul. 1, 1902] [307].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB ♀, NSW (as Neu-Süd-Wales); exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus rufolineatus Carter, H.J. 1939. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. XI. (Mostly Elateridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64(3-4): 297–330, pls VIII, IX [323].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K192692 ♀, Cairns, QLD [16° 55' 20" S 145° 46' 33" E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Female brachypterous, male volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus vitticollis Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [260].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K192693 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Male volant.

History of changes

• Drymelater Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [165].

  Type species:

   Agonischius basilaris Candèze, 1900 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

General References

Kundrata, R., Gunter, N.L., Douglas, H. & Bocak, L. 2016. Next step toward a molecular phylogeny of click-beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): redefinition of Pityobiinae, with a description of a new subfamily Parablacinae from the Australasian Region. Austral Entomology 55(3): 291–302

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus apicalis Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [261].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K192694, K192695 ♂ ♀, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius apicatus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue australische Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1902(ii): 358-363 [Date published Oct. 31, 1902] [363].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB, N QLD; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius aulacoderus Elston, A.H. 1929. Australian Coleoptera — Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 347-352 [348].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM K192696 ♂, NSW and Glen Lamington, QLD; NHRM 2 specimens.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius australis Candèze, E. 1878. Elatérides nouveaux. 2. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: li-lxi, lxxv-lxxxv, cxxxv-cxliii, clxi-c [pages: lxxv–lxxxv, cxxxv–cxliii, clxi–clxxii, clxxxix–cxcix] [cxcvi].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, QLD; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius basilaris Candèze, E. 1900. Elatérides nouveaux. Septième fascicule. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 77-101 [98].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, NSW; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius brevis Candèze, E. 1887. Description d'élatérides nouveaux, provenant de Normantown [sic]: Baie de Carpentaria (Australie septentrionale). Notes from the Leyden Museum 9: 285-290 [289].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Normanton (as Normantown), QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Stichotomus fusiformis Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902] [336].

  Type data:

   Lectotype DEIB ♂, Mackay (as Port Mackay), QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) DEIB 2♂, Australia; exact locality unknown and Mackay (as Port Mackay), QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [222].

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius laticornis Elston, A.H. 1930. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1912. 50. Elateridae. Arkiv för Zoologi 22A(1): 1-22 [Date published Sept. 27, 1930] [21].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NHRM 2 specimens, Mt Tamborine (as Tambourine), QLD; AM K192697 - K192700 4 specimens, Tambourine NP., QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius lineatus Candèze, E. 1878. Elatérides nouveaux. 2. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: li-lxi, lxxv-lxxxv, cxxxv-cxliii, clxi-c [pages: lxxv–lxxxv, cxxxv–cxliii, clxi–clxxii, clxxxix–cxcix] [cxcvi].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius longicornis Candèze, E. 1882. Elatérides nouveaux 3. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 9: 1-117 [105].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, NSW; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius mjobergi Elston, A.H. 1930. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1912. 50. Elateridae. Arkiv för Zoologi 22A(1): 1-22 [Date published Sept. 27, 1930] [20].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) NHRM ♂, Cedar Creek, Herberton, QLD; NMV ♂ (labelled cotype).

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius semiflavus Candèze, E. 1887. Description d'élatérides nouveaux, provenant de Normantown [sic]: Baie de Carpentaria (Australie septentrionale). Notes from the Leyden Museum 9: 285-290 [288].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Normanton (as Normantown), QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Corymbites subpectinatus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue australische Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1902(ii): 358-363 [Date published Oct. 31, 1902] [361].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB 1 specimen, N QLD; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cairns.

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Stichotomus testaceus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902] [336].

  Type data:

   Lectotype DEIB ♂, Australia; exact locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) DEIB 2♂.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [169].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Agonischius ventosus Candèze, E. 1889. Elatérides nouveaux 4. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 33: 67-123 [122].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Dicteniophorus vittatus Macleay, W.J. 1872. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Second paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(4): 239-318 [261].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM K192708 2 specimens (on 1 card), Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E]; ANIC(MMUS) 2♂.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543 [180].

  Type species:

   Glyphochilus leptus Candèze, 1859 by subsequent designation, see Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 621-673 [647].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal

History of changes

• Glyphochilus basicollis Lea, A.M. 1929. Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 203-244 [214].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 10 specimens, Norfolk Is.

Distribution

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus bicolor Candèze, E. 1878. Elatérides nouveaux. 2. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: li-lxi, lxxv-lxxxv, cxxxv-cxliii, clxi-c [pages: lxxv–lxxxv, cxxxv–cxliii, clxi–clxxii, clxxxix–cxcix] [lxxv].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RIB, Sydney, NSW; BMNH ♂.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus brunnipes Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902] [321].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus championi Candèze, E. 1882. Elatérides nouveaux 3. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 9: 1-117 [45].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Champion Bay [Geraldton], WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Atelopus furvus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [142].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Woolnorth, TAS.

  Type locality references:

  Hayek, C.M.F. von 1973. A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 20: 1-309 [Date published Oct. 18, 1973] [165].
• Glyphochilus tasmanicus Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543 [181].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RIB, TAS and ?SA (as sud de la Nouvelle-Hollande); BMNH 1 specimen.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Neboiss, A. 1956. A check list of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 22(2): 1-75 [Date published Jul. 25, 1956] [21]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus inconspicuus Lea, A.M. 1929. Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 203-244 [215].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2♂ 2♀, Lord Howe Is.

Distribution

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus kentiae Lea, A.M. 1929. Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 203-244 [214].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA 2♂ 2♀, Lord Howe Is.; AM 1 specimen, Lord Howe Is.

Distribution

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus laticollis Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902] [320].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB, Australia (as Australia merid.); exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus leptus Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543 [182].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♂ 3♀, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Atelopus lucidus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [143].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Woolnorth, TAS.

  Type locality references:

  Hayek, C.M.F. von 1973. A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 20: 1-309 [Date published Oct. 18, 1973] [165].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus montanus Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(2): 283-300 [Date published 22 Nov. 1892] [290].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1 specimen, Blue Mts, NSW; SAMA 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus occidentalis Candèze, E. 1882. Elatérides nouveaux 3. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 9: 1-117 [45].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus opaculus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902] [321].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH, Swan River, WA; DEIB 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus ustulatus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902] [322].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH, Sydney, NSW; DEIB 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus venustulus Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901(2): 311-336 [Date published Jan. 31, 1902] [319].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH, Sydney, NSW; DEIB 2 specimens.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Glyphochilus waterhousei Lea, A.M. 1929. Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 203-244 [215].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♀, Mt Gower, Lord Howe Is.

Distribution

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Idiomilta Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [307].

  Type species:

   Idiomilta queenslandica Calder, 1996 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

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

History of changes

• Idiomilta queenslandica Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [310].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Kuranda, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 7♂ 5♀; BMNH 1 specimen; SAMA 2♂ 3♀; NMV 4♂ ♀.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Kuranda, Cairns, Lake Barrine,.

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: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Lingana Neboiss, A. 1960. The genera Elatichrosis Hyslop and Lingana, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 8(2): 289-306 [Date published Aug. 31, 1960] [290].

  Type species:

   Chrosis illita Candèze, 1863 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

General References

Neboiss, A. 1960. The genera Elatichrosis Hyslop and Lingana, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 8(2): 289-306 [Date published Aug. 31, 1960] [290] (key to species)

History of changes

• Lingana dombarta Neboiss, A. 1960. The genera Elatichrosis Hyslop and Lingana, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 8(2): 289-306 [Date published Aug. 31, 1960] [292].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, Warren River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Chrosis illita Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [187].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, VIC; exact locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Neboiss, A. 1960. The genera Elatichrosis Hyslop and Lingana, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 8(2): 289-306 [Date published Aug. 31, 1960] [291].
• Metablax plasoni Schwarz, O. 1903. Neue Elateriden aus Neu-Guinea und Australien. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1903(ii): 377-398 [Date published Aug. 31, 1903] [393].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB 1 specimen, Australia; exact locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Neboiss, A. 1960. The genera Elatichrosis Hyslop and Lingana, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 8(2): 289-306 [Date published Aug. 31, 1960] [291]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), 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), 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
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes Kiesenwetter, H. von 1858. Naturgeschichte der Insekten Deutschlands. Coleoptera Elateridae. Berlin : Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Vol. 4(2) 177-384 pp. [353].

  Type species:

   Elater lugens Redtenbacher, 1842 by subsequent designation, see Hyslop, J.A. 1921. Genotypes of the elaterid beetles of the world. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 58: 621-673 [655].

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Northern Neotropical Region.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

General References

Van Zwaluwenburg, R.H. 1957. Coleoptera: Elateridae. Insects of Micronesia 16(1): 1-66 [Date published May 7, 1957] [37] (key to Micronesian species)

History of changes

• Megapenthes andrewsi Gahan, C.J. in Waterhouse, C.O., Gahan, C.J. & Arrow, G.J. 1900. Order 4.-Coleoptera. New species descriptions. pp. 89-127 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 7♀, Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Is.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Is., Indian Ocean.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes apicatus Candèze, E. 1865. Elatérides nouveaux. Mémoires Couronnés par l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 17: 1-63 [31].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 specimen, Swan River (as rivière des Cygnes), WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes automolus Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543 [495].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), 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), 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
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

History of changes

• Megapenthes dolens Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1-543 [495].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes dubiosus Schwarz, O. 1907. 18 neue Elateriden-Arten von Australien. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 68(1): 70-86 [Date published May 31, 1907] [78].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB 2 specimens, VIC; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes lituratus Candèze, E. 1887. Description d'élatérides nouveaux, provenant de Normantown [sic]: Baie de Carpentaria (Australie septentrionale). Notes from the Leyden Museum 9: 285-290 [287].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB, Normanton (as Normantown), QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes macdougalli Blair, K.G. 1935. Two new species of Australian Elateridae (Col.). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 71: 102 [102].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Mackay, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [319].

Distribution

States

Queensland

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: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: rotting wood.

History of changes

• Megapenthes misellus Schwarz, O. 1907. 18 neue Elateriden-Arten von Australien. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 68(1): 70-86 [Date published May 31, 1907] [79].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB 2 specimens, Australia (as Australia merid.); exact locality unknown.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Unknown.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes ruficollis Schwarz, O. 1902. Neue australische Elateriden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1902(ii): 358-363 [Date published Oct. 31, 1902] [360].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB, VIC; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes rufipes Candèze, E. 1865. Elatérides nouveaux. Mémoires Couronnés par l'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Belgique 17: 1-63 [31].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Adelaide, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Calder, A.A. 1996. Click Beetles. Genera of Australian Elateridae (Coleoptera). Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: i-x 1-401 [320].

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Elater tinctipes Candèze, E. 1900. Elatérides nouveaux. Septième fascicule. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 44: 77-101 [87].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Forest Reefs, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Megapenthes vulneratus Schwarz, O. 1907. 18 neue Elateriden-Arten von Australien. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 68(1): 70-86 [Date published May 31, 1907] [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB, Australia (as Australia mer.); exact locality unknown.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Unknown.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Melanotus Eschscholtz, J.F. 1829. Elaterites, Eintheilung derselben in Gattungen. In, Thon. Entomol. Arch.2(1): 31–35. [32].

  Type species:

   Elater fulvipes Herbst, 1806 by subsequent designation, see Westwood, J.O. 1838. Synopsis of the Genera of British Insects. Coleoptera. pp. 1-44 (sheets B-D4) in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects. London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans Vol. 2 xi 587 + 158 pp. [Date published May – Nov. 1838] [May–Nov. 1838 Griffin, F.J. 1932. On the dates of publication and contents of the parts of Westwood (J.O.) Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects, 1838–1840. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 6: 83–84 [83]] [26].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

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 Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Nearctic Region

Neotropical Region

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

History of changes

• Melanotus mouldsi Calder, A.A. 1983. Melanotus Eschscholtz, a genus new to Australia (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22(3): 257-260 [Date published Aug. 26, 1983] [257].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV T8084 ♂, Iron Range, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM 3♂ 2♀; ANIC 8♂ 11♀; AWH ♂, Black Mountain Road, 6 miles (10 km) N of Kuranda, QLD; BMNH 4♂; NMV T8085–8099 8♂ 7♀, Iron Range, QLD; QM ♂ 2♀.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

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), 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: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Melanoxanthus Eschscholtz, J.F. in Castelnau, F.L. de Laporte, Conte de 1838. Classification des Elatérides de M. Eschscholtz. Rev. Entomol. (Silbermann) 4: table opposite p. 5. [in table without included species, subsequently described by Candèze, E. 1859. Monographie des Elatérides 2. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 14: 1–543 (510)].

  Type species:

   Elater melanocephalus Fabricius, 1781 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Palaearctic Region.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, SW coastal

Oriental Region

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

General References

Carter, H.J. 1939. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. XI. (Mostly Elateridae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64(3-4): 297–330, pls VIII, IX [305] (key to Australian species)

Van Zwaluwenburg, R.H. 1957. Coleoptera: Elateridae. Insects of Micronesia 16(1): 1-66 [Date published May 7, 1957] [42] (key to Micronesian species)

History of changes

• Melanoxanthus abdominalis Candèze, E. 1893. Elatérides nouveaux. Cinquième fascicule. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 18: 1-76 [39].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, QLD; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region