Species Lepidiota caudata Blackburn, 1890

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Species Lepidiota caudata Blackburn, 1890

Caudata Whitegrub

Lepidiota caudata Blackburn, T. 1890. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part VII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 13: 82-93 [Date published Dec. 31, 1890] [85].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 2662 ♀ (Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset)), QLD.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ (Blackburn, T. 1912. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XLII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 40–75 (59) subsequently discovered that the male of caudata in the original description was a female and that the female was a new species, which he called Lepidiota deceptrix), QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
Allsopp, P.G. 2020. Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950. Zootaxa 4885(4): 451–486 [Date published 27/11/2020].

Distribution

States

Queensland

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

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva major pest of sugar cane and pest of grass on Atherton Tableland.

General References

Britton, E.B. 1978. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 60: 1-150 [60]

Chandler, K.J. 1989. Notes on the life cycle, pest status and control of Lepidiota caudata Blackburn (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae), a pest of sugarcane in north Queensland. Proceedings of the Australian Society for Sugar Cane Technology 11: 93-99

Cumpston, D. 1941. A summary of certain aspects of the scarab problem, and a contribution to a bibliography of the family Scarabaeidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66: 33-40 (biology)

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)
04-Aug-2021	SCARABAEIDAE	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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