Species Hapatesus (Hapatesus) hirtus Candèze, 1863

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hapatesus hirtus Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [188].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RIB ♀, VIC; exact locality unknown.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Neboiss, A. 1957. The genera Hapatesus Candèze and Toorongus, gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 5(4): 496-520 [Date published Dec. 31, 1957] [506]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [108] (interprets Neboiss' incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, 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
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

General References

Neboiss, A. 1962. Notes on distribution and descriptions of new species (Orders: Odonata, Plecoptera, Orthoptera, Trichoptera and Coleoptera). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 25: 243-258 [254] (larval description)

 

Common Name References

Carne, P.B. (ed.) 1987. Scientific and Common Names of Insects and Allied Forms Occurring in Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO 120 pp. [98] (Potato Wireworm)

 

History of changes

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