Species Pharochilus rugiceps (Hope & Westwood, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Passalus dilatatus 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. [29] [junior homonym of Passalus dilatatus Dalman, 1817].

  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. [90].
• Passalus rugiceps Hope, F.W. & Westwood, J.O. 1845. A Catalogue of the Lucanoid Coleoptera in the collection of the Rev. F.W. Hope, M.A., F.R.S., etc., together with Descriptions of the new species therein contained. London : J.C. Bridgewater 31 pp. [28].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, OUM, Port Phillip, VIC (as New Holland).
• Passalus politus Burmeister, H.C.C. 1847. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Xylophila et Pectinicornia. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 5 viii 584 pp. [465].

  Type data:

   Holotype MLUH, TAS (as Van-Diemens Land).
• Pharochilus politus languidilabris Kuwert, A.F. 1891. Systematische Übersicht der Passaliden-Arten und Gattungen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1891: 161-192 [166].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Neuholland).
• Pharochilus bilineatopunctatus Kuwert, A.F. 1891. Systematische Übersicht der Passaliden-Arten und Gattungen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1891: 161-192 [166].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Neuholland).
• Pharochilus brevidentatus Kuwert, A.F. 1898. Die Passaliden dichotomisch bearbeitet. Novitates Zoologicae 5: 259-349 [332].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Neu Holland).
• Pharochilus compar Kuwert, A.F. 1898. Die Passaliden dichotomisch bearbeitet. Novitates Zoologicae 5: 259-349 [333].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Neu Holland).

 

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, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), 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
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults inhabit and feed on rotten wood.

 

General References

Schuster, J.C. & Reyes-Castillo, P. 1981. New World genera of Passalidae (Coloptera): a revision of larvae. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 25: 79-116 (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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