Species Pepila submetallescens (Baly, 1877)

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• Chaetocnema submetallescens Baly, J.S. 1877. Descriptions of new genera and species of uncharacterized species of Halticinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877(2): 157-184 [175].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Numbers not provided ♂, Gawler, SA [Lat/Long not provided].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Biondi, M. & D'Alessandro, P. 2003. Pepila Weise: Taxonomic identity of the genus and revision of the megalopoides species-group, and description of two new species from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). European Journal of Entomology 100(3): 371-379.
• Plectroscelis longior Blackburn, T. 1896. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XIX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 35-109 [Date published Sept. 30, 1896] [59].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH Numbers not provided ♀, near Port Lincoln, SA [Lat/Long not provided].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Biondi, M. & D'Alessandro, P. 2003. Pepila Weise: Taxonomic identity of the genus and revision of the megalopoides species-group, and description of two new species from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). European Journal of Entomology 100(3): 371-379.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Biondi, M. & D'Alessandro, P. 2003. Pepila Weise: Taxonomic identity of the genus and revision of the megalopoides species-group, and description of two new species from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). European Journal of Entomology 100(3): 371-379 [375] (longior Blackburn, 1896: 58 junior synonym submetallescens Baly, 1877: 175)

Generic Combinations

• Pepila submetallescens (Baly, 1877). —
  Biondi, M. & D'Alessandro, P. 2003. Pepila Weise: Taxonomic identity of the genus and revision of the megalopoides species-group, and description of two new species from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). European Journal of Entomology 100(3): 371-379

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP)

General References

Biondi, M. & D'Alessandro, P. 2003. Revision of the Pepila fuscomaculata species-group and description of four new species from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 42: 313-326 (Re-description)

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