Species Lepanus pygmaeus (Macleay, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Temnoplectron pygmaeum Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Part II. The Lamellicornes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 897-924 [898].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) 25-057970 ♀, King Sound, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS); ANIC(MMUS) 25-057970 ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Matthews, E.G. 1974. A revision of the Scarabaeine dung beetles of Australia. II. Tribe Scarabaeini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 24: 1-211 [112]; Cassis, G. & Weir, T.A. 1992. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 9. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS xii 544 pp. (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)); Gunter, N.L. & Weir, T.A. 2019. Revision of Australian species of the dung beetle genus Lepanus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): key to species groups and description of 14 new species from the L. pygmaeus species group. Zootaxa 4564(1): 41–80.
• Panelus arthuri Blackburn, T. 1900. On some new genera and species of Australian Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 12: 206-233 [Date published Apr. 30, 1900] [211].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH NHMUK011525636, NW Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lea, A.M. 1904. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29: 60-107 [89]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, open forest, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

Open areas.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
02-May-2019	SCARABAEIDAE	10-Apr-2019	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)