Species Hemilychas alexandrinus (Hirst, 1911)

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Species Hemilychas alexandrinus (Hirst, 1911)

Lychas (Hemilychas) alexandrinus Hirst, S. 1911. Descriptions of new scorpions. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 462-473 [464].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ♂, Alexandria, Northern Territory, Australia.
Lychas truncatus Glauert, L. 1925. The flora and fauna of the Nuyts Archipelago and the Investigator group. No. 17. — The scorpions, with descriptions of some species from other localities in South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 49: 85-87 [85].
Type data:
Holotype NMV K-7259 ♂, Pyramid Hill, Victoria, Australia.
Lychas annulatus Glauert, L. 1925. Australian Scorpionidea. Part 1. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11: 89-118 [107].
Type data:
Holotype NMV K-7258 ♀, Kychering Soak, near Tarcoola, South Australia, Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

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, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
- Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
- Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

General References

Kovarík, F. 1997. Revision of the genera Lychas and Hemilychas, with description of six new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 61: 311-371 [365]

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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