Species Heteronyx piceus Blanchard, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heteronyx piceus 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:

   Holotype MNHP, eastern Australia (as Nouv.-Holl. orient.).
• Heteronyx ponderosus Blackburn, T. 1909. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXIX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 18-81 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Goulburn, NSW.
• Heteronyx spissus Blackburn, T. 1909. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXIX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 33: 18-81 [40].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Queanbeyan, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 1 specimen, Queanbeyan, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 2000. A review of Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(4): 465-589 [534].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 2000. A review of Heteronyx Guérin-Méneville (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(4): 465-589 [534]

 

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

General References

Morgan, D.F. 1977. Swarming behaviour in the Australian beetle, Heteronyx obesus, with notes on related species. Ecological Entomology 2: 91-96 (biology)

 

History of changes

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