Genus Melaneros Fairmaire, 1877
- Melaneros Fairmaire, L. 1877. Diagnoses de Coléoptères australiens et mélanésiens. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques 2(182): 173-174 [173].
Type species:
Melaneros atroviolaceus Fairmaire, 1877 by subsequent designation, see Blair, K.G. 1928. Heteromera, Bostrichidae, Malacodermata, Buprestidae. Insects of Samoa and Other Samoan Terrestrial Arthropoda 4(2): 67-109 [99]. - Plateros Bourgeois, J. 1879. Lycides recueillis au Brésil par C. van Volxem. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 22: xv-xix [xix].
Type species:
Eros alatus Newman, 1838 (=Lycus canaliculatus Say, 1835) by subsequent designation, see Bourgeois, J. 1891. Etudes sur la distribution géographique des Malacodermes. I. Lycides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 60: 337-364 [346].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Bocák, L. & Bocáková, M. 1992. Notes on some genera of the family Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Entomologica Basiliensia 15: 255-260 [255]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
Extra Distribution Information
Russian Far East, not Alaska.
IBRA
NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
Australian Region
- Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Indonesia
- Irian Jaya
Nearctic Region
- Canada
- British Columbia
- Ontario
- Quebec
- United States of America
Neotropical Region
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Amazonas
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Venezuela
Oriental Region
- Andaman Islands
- Burma (= Myanmar)
- China (People's Republic)
- India
- Indonesia
- Kampuchea (Cambodia)
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Palaearctic Region
- Japan
- North Korea
- South Korea
Distribution References
- Green, J.W. 1952. The Lycidae of the United States and Canada. V. Plateros (Coleoptera). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 78: 149-181 [150] (North American distribution)
- Kleine, R. 1933. Lycidae. pp. 1-145 in Schenkling, S (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 128 145 pp. [84] (world distribution)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |