Species Lychas variatus (Thorell, 1877)

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• Isometrus variatus Thorell, T. 1877. Études scorpiologiques. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 19: 75-272 [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM ♀, Australia (as 'Nova Hollandia').
• Isometrus thorelli Keyserling, E. 1885. Ordo Scorpiones. pp. 1-39 in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. (eds). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [12].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 1 specimen, Sydney, New South, Australia; whereabouts unknown 1 specimen, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
• Isometrus variatus papuanus Thorell, T. 1888. Pedipalpi e Scorpioni dell'Arcipelago Malese conservati nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 6: 327-428 [407].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♀, Yule Island (Roro), Central District Province, Papua New Guinea [8°50'S 146°30'E].
• Isometrus armatus Pocock, R.I. 1890. On some Old-World species of scorpions belonging to the genus Isometrus. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 23: 433-447 [439].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Darwin (as 'Port Essington'), Northern Territory, Australia.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1♀, not stated.
• Lychas marmoreus kimberleyanus Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Scorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [28].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM 2 adults, 3 juveniles, Kimberley District, Western Australia, Australia.
• Lychas spinatus Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Scorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [32].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM 2♀, Queensland, Australia.
• Lychas spinatus besti Glauert, L. 1925. Australian Scorpionidea. Part 1. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11: 89-118 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV K-7078, Mallee District, Victoria, Australia.
• Lychas spinatus pallidus Glauert, L. 1925. Australian Scorpionidea. Part 1. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11: 89-118 [105].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM 2 specimens, New South Wales, Australia; MMUS 2 specimens, without data.
• Lychas lappa Glauert, L. 1954. A new scorpion from Queensland. North Queensland Naturalist 23: 4-5 [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 64/62 ♀, Lappa Junction, Queensland, Australia [17°22'S, 144°53'E].

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), 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 North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, terrestrial.

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