Species Galbodema mannerheimii Laporte, 1835

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• Galbodema mannerheimii Laporte, F.L. (Comte de Castelnau) 1835. Etudes entomologiques, ou descriptions d'insects nouveaux et observations sur la synonymie. Revue Entomologique (Silbermann) 3: 157-179 [176].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Galba hagenbachii Castelnau, Comte de 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 1 cxxv 324 pp. [pl. 16 fig. 9] [initially figured, but never subsequently described].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Galbodema ruficeps Bonvouloir, H. de 1872. Monographie de la famille des Eucnémides. 2me partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 40: 289-560 pls 22-36 [444].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Murray River, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schenkling, S. 1928. Melasidae. pp. 1-110 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 96. [22]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: rotting wood.

 

General References

Muona, J. 1993. Review of the phylogeny, classification and biology of the family Eucnemidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 44: 1-133 [Date published Feb. 1, 1993] [67] (biology)

 

History of changes

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