Species Metanastes vulgivagus (Olliff, 1889)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heteronychus vulgivagus Olliff, A.S. 1889. The insect fauna of Lord Howe Island. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 2: 75-98 [84] [replacement name for Pentodon australis Blackburn, 1888].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K38525 (K187948, K291713) ♂ ♀, Lord Howe Is. [31° 34' S 159° 5' E].
• Pentodon australis Blackburn, T. [1887] 1888. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177-287 [216] [junior homonym of Heteronychus australis Fauvel, 1862].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, SA.
• Metanastes blackburni Arrow, G.J. 1911. Notes on the Coleopterous subfamily Dynastinae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 8: 151-176 [166] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Pentodon australis Blackburn, 1888].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [55]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • Victoria
• New Caledonia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, root-feeder, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean, occassional pasture pest.

 

General References

Barbero, E. & Palestrini, V. 2003. Coleoptera Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Scarabaeidae (Scarabaeinae and Dynastinae) collected in Australia. pp. 303-328 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [322] (new record)

Cumpston, D. 1940. On the external morphology and biology of Heteronychus sanctae-helenae Blanch. and Metanastes vuglivagus Oliff (Col. Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 65: 289-300 (morphology, biology)

Endrödi, S. 1971. Monographie der Dynastinae. Tribus: Pentodontini (papuanische und pazifische Inselwelt). (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia: Melolonthidae). Pacific Insects 13: 243-320 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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