Species Liparochrus (Liparochrus) dilatatifrons Blackburn, 1905

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• Liparochrus dilatatifrons Blackburn, T. 1905. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 29: 270-332 [272].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, QLD.
• Liparochrus timidus Arrow, G.J. 1909. On the characters and relationships of the less-known groups of Lamellicorn Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species of Hybosorinae etc. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1909: 479-507 [490].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Alexandria, NT.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 2 specimens; SAMA 2 specimens (labelled cotypes); MCG 5 specimens; ZMB 3 specimens; BMNH 36 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bacchus, M.E. 1978. A catalogue of the type-specimens of the Scarabaeinae (Scarabaeidae) and the smaller lamellicorn families (Coleoptera) described by G.J. Arrow. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomol. 37: 97-115 [114]; Paulian, R. 1980. Révision taxonomique des Liparochrus Erichson, genre Australo-Mélanésien de Coléoptères Hybosoridae, Scarabaeoidea. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France ns 16: 389-433 [420] (lectotype designated).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Arrow, G.J. 1925. Notes on the Coleopterous families Hybosoridae and Trogidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 15: 328-331 [328]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, necrophagous, volant.

Larva: necrophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

At rotting fruit.

 

General References

Barbero, E. & Palestrini, V. 2003. Coleoptera Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Scarabaeidae (Scarabaeinae and Dynastinae) collected in Australia. pp. 303-328 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [310] (new record)

 

History of changes

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