Species Liparochrus (Ranidichrus) multistriatus Harold, 1874

Museums

Regional Maps

• Liparochrus multistriatus Harold, E. von 1874. Zur Kenntniss der kugelförmigen Trogiden. Coleopterologische Hefte 12: 26-51 [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH, Rockhampton, QLD.

  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 [398].
• Liparochrus pimelioides Lansberge, G. van 1885. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Coléoptères appartenant au Musée Civique de Gênes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 2: 375-400 [397].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, Somerset, Cape York (as Cap York), QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  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 [399].

 

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

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), 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 Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N 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 records)

 

History of changes

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