Species Heteronyx fumata (Erichson, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Silopa fumata Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [162].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB, TAS (as Vandiemansland).
• Silopa hepatica Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB, TAS (as Vandiemansland).
• Heteronyx rapax Blackburn, T. 1890. Revision of the genus Heteronyx with descriptions of new species. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 661-706 [679].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, VIC.
• Heteronyx laticollis 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. [109].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, 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 [512].
• Heteronyx rubriceps 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. [109].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, 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 [512].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blackburn, T. 1910. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XL. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 146–230 [227]
• Britton, E.B. 2000. A review of Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(4): 465-589 [512]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), 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), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

History of changes

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