Species Melanoxanthus melanocephalus (Fabricius, 1781)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Elater melanocephalus Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997] [272].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH sex undetermined, Coromandel, New Zealand.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Van Zwaluwenburg, R.H. 1959. Some type designations, with notes on Pacific Elateridae (Coleoptera). Pacific Insects 1(4): 347-414 [Date published Dec. 25, 1959] [387]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [127] (interprets Van Zwaluwenburg's incorrect inference to a type as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Elater nigroterminatus Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa, Catalogue of Insects, collected by Captain King, R.N. app. B, pp. 438-469, Table B in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822; with Appendix B. London : John Murray Vol. 2 viii 637 pp., 9 pls. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [Publication date established from Common, I.F.B. & Moulds, M.S. 1973. The date of publication of Captain Phillip King's Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 6(4): 257–259] [441].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀, Australia (as New Holland).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [228]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [127] (interprets Gullan's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [227]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Gullan, P.J. 1977. A revision of the genus Anilicus Candèze, with notes on related genera (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 38: 209-230 [227] (extra-Australian distribution)

 

History of changes

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