Species Liparetrus rufipennis Macleay, 1864

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• Liparetrus rufipennis Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [128].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS), Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 1980. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 3. Tribe Liparetrini Genus Liparetrus. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 76: 1-209 [119].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Lake Eyre basin, QLD, NT.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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 coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

History of changes

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