• Hemipharis Burmeister, H.C.C. 1842. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Melitophila. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 3 xxii 827 pp. [531].

  Type species:

   Schyzorhina insularis Gory & Percheron, 1833 by subsequent designation, see Kraatz, G. 1880. Genera Cetonidarum Australiae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 24: 177-214 [183].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

History of changes

• Schyzorhina insularis Gory, H.L. & Percheron, A.R. 1833. Monographie de Cétoines et genres voisons, formant, dans les families naturelles de Latreille, la division des Scarabées Mélitophiles. Paris : J.B. Baillière 403 pp., 77 pls. [54].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Melville Is., NT (as Ille Melville, Nouv.-Holl.).
• Hemipharis speciosa Janson, O.E. 1873. Descriptions of new species of Australian Cetoniidae. Cistula Entomologica 1: 133-140 [134].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP, Nickol (as Nicol) Bay, WA (as N W Australia); RMNH, Nickol (as Nicol) Bay, WA (as NW Australia).
• Hemipharis froggatti Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Part II. The Lamellicornes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 897-924 [923].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, King Sound, WA.
• Hemipharis olivacea Schoch, G. 1898. Nachtrag VII zu Schoch: Genera und Species meiner Cetoniden-Sammlung. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft / Bulletin of the Société Entomologique Suisse 10: 101-119 [105].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ?♀, Australia (as Innern Australiens).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lea, A.M. 1914. Notes on Australian Cetoniides; with a list of species and descriptions of some new ones. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 38: 132-218 [149]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

W plateau, WA, NT.

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

General References

Williams, G.A. 1977. A list of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) collected from lights at Palm Cove and Ellis Beach, North Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 4-6 (distribution)

History of changes