Subspecies Phaeochrous emarginatus emarginatus Castelnau, 1840

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• Phaeochrous emarginatus Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères, avec une introduction renfermant l'anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articulés, par M. Brullé. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2 563 pp. [109].

  Type data:

   Neotype RMNH, Banjoewangi, Java.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kuijten, P.J. 1978. Revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Phaeochrous Castelnau, 1840 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Hybosorinae), with notes on African species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1978: 1-40 [18].
• Silphodes hirtipes Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [125].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Bowen (as Port Dennison), QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Kuijten, P.J. 1978. Revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Phaeochrous Castelnau, 1840 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Hybosorinae), with notes on African species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1978: 1-40 [21].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kuijten, P.J. 1978. Revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Phaeochrous Castelnau, 1840 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Hybosorinae), with notes on African species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1978: 1-40 [21]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, necrophagous, volant.

Larva: necrophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

At rotting fruit.

 

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. [311] (new records, including first records from NT)

Kuijten, P.J. 1978. Revision of the Indo-Australian species of the genus Phaeochrous Castelnau, 1840 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Hybosorinae), with notes on African species. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 1978: 1-40 [21] (extralimital synonymy)

Williams, G.A. 1977. A list of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) collected from lights at Palm Cove and Ellis Beach, North Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 4-6 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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