Species Maechidius macleaynus Westwood, 1842

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• Maechidius macleaynus Westwood, J.O. 1842. Maechidius, MacL., a genus of Lamellicorn beetles, with descriptions and figures of some new genera belonging to the same tribe. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 457-458 [457] [subsequently misspelled as Mac Leajanus in Burmeister, H.C.C. 1855. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Phyllophaga Chaenochela. Berlin : Reimer Vol. 4 Pt 2 x 570 pp. (211) and as macleayanus in Westwood, J.O. 1845. On the genus Maechidius of Macleay. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4: 78–83].

  Type data:

   Lectotype OUM, Australia (as New Holland).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [164].

  Secondary source:

   Westwood, J.O. 1845. On the genus Maechidius of Macleay. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4: 78-83; Burmeister, H.C.C. 1855. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Phyllophaga Chaenochela. Berlin : Reimer Vol. 4 (2) x 570 pp.
• Maechidius multistriatus Blackburn, T. 1898. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 22: 18-64 [61].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, Forest Reefs, Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 7 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [164]; Houston, W.W.K. & Weir, T.A. 1992. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 9. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS xii 544 pp. (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [164]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin, NSW, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

History of changes

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