Species Macrodascillus scalaris (Lea, 1895)

• Helodes scalaris Lea, A.M. 1895. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 10: 224-319 [Date published 29 May 1895] [230].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 3, Galston, NSW.
• Macrodascillus denticornis Carter, H.J. 1935. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. IX. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 179-193 [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀, Barrington Tops, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 2011. Revision of Australian Scirtidae of the genera Chameloscyphon gen. nov., Daploeuros gen. nov., Dasyscyphon gen. nov., Eurycyphon gen. nov., Macrodascillus Carter, Petrocyphon gen. nov. and Spaniosdascillus gen. nov. (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 135(1): 66-110 [86]

Generic Combinations

• Macrodascillus scalaris (Lea, 1895). —
  Watts, C.H.S., Bradford, T.M. & Cooper, S.J.B. 2021. A new genus, Perplexacara, and new generic placements of species of Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology and molecular genetic data. Zootaxa 4927(4): 539–548

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

General References

Watts, C.H.S. 2011. Revision of Australian Scirtidae of the genera Chameloscyphon gen. nov., Daploeuros gen. nov., Dasyscyphon gen. nov., Eurycyphon gen. nov., Macrodascillus Carter, Petrocyphon gen. nov. and Spaniosdascillus gen. nov. (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 135(1): 66-110 [86]

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