Species Nematodes major Bonvouloir, 1872

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nematodes major Bonvouloir, H. de 1872. Monographie de la famille des Eucnémides. 2me partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 40: 289-560 pls 22-36 [pl. 32 fig. 3] [initially figured, subsequently described by Bonvouloir, H. de 1875. Monographie de la famille des Eucnémides. 3me et 4me parties. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 10: 561–907 pls 37–42 (668)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, VIC; erroneously cited as USA (as Etats-Unis).

  Type locality references:

  Horn, G.H. 1875. Synonymical notes and description of new species of North American Coleoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 5: 126-156 [149].
• Dromaeolus thoracicus Lea, A.M. 1895. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 589-634 [Date published Mar. 28, 1895] [595].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Galston, Lane Cove and Merimbula, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schenkling, S. 1928. Throscidae, Cerophytidae, Perothopidae. pp. 1-26 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 101. [94]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, under bark, volant.

Larva: rotting wood.

 

General References

Muona, J. 1993. Review of the phylogeny, classification and biology of the family Eucnemidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 44: 1-133 [Date published Feb. 1, 1993] [70] (biology)

 

History of changes

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