Species Heterocerus debilipes Blackburn, 1903

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• Heterocerus debilipes Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [179].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Oodnadatta, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 2♂ 2♀, Oodnadatta, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Charpentier, R. 1968. A monograph of the family Heteroceridae (Coleoptera) of the Notogean Region. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 20(11): 205-241 [218].

  Type locality references:

  Charpentier, R. 1968. A monograph of the family Heteroceridae (Coleoptera) of the Notogean Region. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 20(11): 205-241 [219].
• Heterocerus multimaculatus Blackburn, T. [1887] 1888. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177-287 [205] [junior homonym of Heterocerus multimaculatus Motschulsky, 1854].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (a single specimen), near the Grange, on the banks of the Torrens [River], SA.
• Heterocerus blackburni Zaitzev, P. 1908. Catalogue des Coléoptères aquatiques des familles des Dryopidae, Georyssidae, Cyathoceridae, Heteroceridae et Hydrophilidae. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 38: 315-323 [316] [nom. nov. for Heterocerus multimaculatus Blackburn, 1888].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Charpentier, R. 1968. A monograph of the family Heteroceridae (Coleoptera) of the Notogean Region. Arkiv för Zoologi 2 20(11): 205-241 [218]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, N coastal, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: algae feeder, closed forest, fossorial, volant.

Larva: algae feeder, burrower.

 

History of changes

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