Species Paracrepidomenus filiformis (Candèze, 1863)

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• Crepidomenus filiformis Candèze, E. 1863. Monographie des Elatérides 4. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 17: 1-534 [199].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, VIC; exact locality unknown.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1 specimen.

  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] [403].
• Crepidomenus sulcicollis Candèze, E. 1897. Elatérides nouveaux. Sixième fascicule. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2 29: 1-88 [67].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB ♂, VIC; exact locality unknown.

  Type locality references:

  Blackburn, T. 1912. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. XLII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 36: 40-75 [Date published Dec. 31, 1912] [75].
• Crepidomenus aberrans Lea, A.M. 1908. The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 20(2): 143-207 [Date published March 31, 1908] [158].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂, Frankford, TAS.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC ♂, Frankford, TAS; TDA ♀, Frankford, TAS; SAMA ♀ (labelled cotype), Frankford, TAS; NMV T150 1 specimen (badly damaged, abdomen missing), King Is., TAS; NMV T1994 ♂, Frankford, TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Calder, A.A. 1986. Classification, relationships and distribution of the Crepidomeninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 122: 1-220 [Date published Dec. 18, 1986] [131]; Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [112] (interprets Calder's incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Calder, A.A. 1986. Classification, relationships and distribution of the Crepidomeninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 122: 1-220 [Date published Dec. 18, 1986] [131]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

History of changes

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