Species Hemiopsida nigricans (Bonvouloir, 1872)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lycaon nigricans 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 [pl. 34 fig. 9] [initially figured, subsequently described by Bonvouloir, H. de 1875. Monographie de la famille des Eucnémides. 3me et 4me parties. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 10: 561–907 pls 37–42 (720)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Melbourne, VIC and Sydney, NSW.
• Lycaon antennarius Bonvouloir, H. de 1875. Monographie de la famille des Eucnémides. 3me et 4me parties. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 10: 561-907 pls 37-42 [719] [as variety of nigricans Bonvouloir, 1872].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 2 specimens, Melbourne, VIC.

 

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. [86]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

History of changes

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