Species Heteronyx aphodioides Blanchard, 1850

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Species Heteronyx aphodioides Blanchard, 1850

Heteronyx aphodioides Blanchard, C.E. 1850. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection Entomologique. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coléoptères. Paris : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Vol. IV 128 pp. [110].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP, eastern Australia (as Nouv.-Holl. orient).
Paralectotype(s) ANIC, eastern Australia (as Nouv.-Holl. orient).
Subsequent designation references:
Britton, E.B. 2000. A review of Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(4): 465-589 [493].
Heteronyx incultus Blackburn, T. 1889. Revision of the genus Heteronyx with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 425-444 [Date published 20 Sept. 1889] [430].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH, near Adelaide, SA.
Subsequent designation references:
Britton, E.B. 2000. A review of Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(4): 465-589 [493].
Heteronyx potens Blackburn, T. 1889. Revision of the genus Heteronyx with descriptions of new species. Part III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 425-444 [Date published 20 Sept. 1889] [428].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH, NSW.
Subsequent designation references:
Britton, E.B. 2000. A review of Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(4): 465-589 [493].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Britton, E.B. 2000. A review of Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(4): 465-589 [493]

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

NSW.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- South Australia: S Gulfs
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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

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