Species Lepidiota frenchi Blackburn, 1912

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• Lepidiota frenchi Blackburn, T. 1912. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. XLII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 40-75 [Date published Dec. 31, 1912] [58].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 7899 ♂ (Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset)), Cairns, QLD [16.93°S, 145.25°E].
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂; SAMA 13011 ♂, same as lectotype; SAMA ♀; SAMA I.817 ♀, same as lectotype; BMNH 7899 ♀ (Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset)), same as lectotype.

  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

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Spec National Park, Paluma, Torres Strait Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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.

 

General References

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Aug-2021	SCARABAEIDAE	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)