Species Pharochilus dilatatus (Dalman, 1817)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Passalus dilatatus Dalman, J.W. 1817. Sistens descriptiones novarum specierum. pp. 1-144 in Schönherr, C.J. (ed.). Appendix ad C. J. Schönherr Synonymiam Insectorum. Scaris : Lewerentziana Vol. I(3) 266 pp. [144].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, RMNH, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Passalus crenistrius Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insects nouveaux recueillis pendent de voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. In, D'Urville, D., César, J. S. (ed.). Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les annés 1826–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Paris : J. Tastu Vol. 7 716 pp. [244].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Passalus chevrolati Percheron, A.R. 1835. Monographie des Passales et des genres qui en ont été séparés; accompagnée de planches dessinées par l'auteur, ou toutes les espèces ont été figurées. Paris : Mercklein iii 107 pp. 7 pls. [26].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Hincks, W.D. & Dibb, J.R. 1935. Passalidae. pp. 1-118 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Lucanidae — Passalidae — Scarabaeidae I. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XIX Pt 142. [89].
• Passalus cancrus Percheron, A.R. 1844. Monographie des Passales. (Second supplément). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 6: pls 134-135 (13 pp.) [4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Hincks, W.D. & Dibb, J.R. 1935. Passalidae. pp. 1-118 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Lucanidae — Passalidae — Scarabaeidae I. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XIX Pt 142. [89].
• Tiberius caffer Kuwert, A.F. 1891. Systematische Übersicht der Passaliden-Arten und Gattungen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1891: 161-192 [164] [Gravely, F.H. 1914. An account of the Oriental Passalidae (Coleoptera) based primarily on the collection in the Indian Museum. Mem. Indian Mus. 3: 177–353 (194, 197) considers the type locality erroneous and that the species is undoubtedly an Australian taxon].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, South Africa (as Caffraria).

  Secondary source:

   Gravely, F.H. 1914. An account of the Oriental Passalidae (Coleoptera) based primarily on the collection in the Indian Museum. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 3: 177-353.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hincks, W.D. & Dibb, J.R. 1935. Passalidae. pp. 1-118 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Lucanidae — Passalidae — Scarabaeidae I. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XIX Pt 142. [89]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults inhabit and feed on rotten wood.

 

History of changes

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