Species Hyperion schroetteri (Schreibers, 1802)

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• Scarites schroetteri Schreibers, C.F.A. 1802. Descriptions of some singular Coleopterous insects. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 6: 185-206 pls 19-21 [201 pl 19 figs 15-19, pl 21 fig 10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, central Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: open forest, predator, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

General References

Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1834. Études Entomologiques, ou Description d'Insectes Nouveaux et Observations sur leur Synonomie. Paris : Méquinon-Marvis 1-94 pp., pl 1-2. [73] (taxonomy)

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