Species Eurhopalus mercatus Liu, Zhou, Szito & Ślipiński, 2022

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anthrenocerus signatus Armstrong, J.W.T. 1943. On Australian Dermestidae. Part III. The genera Anthrenocerus Arrow and Orphinus Motsch.; also a note on the on the genus Cryptorhopalum Guér. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68(1-2): 57-63 [60] [junior homonym].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA unsexed, Cairns district, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roach, A.M.E. 2000. Review of the Australian species of the dermestid genus Anthrenocerus Arrow (Coleoptera: Dermestidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(2): 175-224 [214].

Generic Combinations

• Eurhopalus mercatus Liu, Zhou, Szito & Ślipiński, 2022. —
  Liu, Z., Zhou, Y-L., Szito, A. & Ślipiński, A. 2022. The Australian hide, larder and carpet beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae): a revision at the generic level. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 72(4): 837–926
  Zhou, Y-L., Nicholls, J.A., Liu, Z-H., Hartley, D., Szito, A., Ślipiński, A. & Zwick, A. 2022. Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle Trogoderma granarium Everts. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(6): 1–24

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: scavenger, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes