Species Liparochrus (Liparochrus) silphoides Harold, 1874

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Species Liparochrus (Liparochrus) silphoides Harold, 1874

Liparochrus silphoides Harold, E. von 1874. Zur Kenntniss der kugelförmigen Trogiden. Coleopterologische Hefte 12: 26-51 [49].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, NSW.
Secondary source:
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 [426].
Liparochrus raucus Fairmaire, L. 1877. Diagnoses de Coléoptères australiens et mélanésiens. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques 2(180): 166–167 [15 Sept. 1877] [166].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP, NSW (as N. South-Wales).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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 [270]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

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

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, necrophagous, volant.

Larva: necrophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

At rotting fruit.

General References

Williams, G.A. & Williams, T. 1983. A survey of the Aphodiinae, Hybosorinae and Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from small wet forests of coastal New South Wales, Part 2: Barrington Tops to the Comboyne Plateau. Victorian Naturalist 100: 25-30 (distribution)

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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