Species Phlogistus multicolor (Chevrolat, 1876)

Museums

Aulicus multicolor Chevrolat, L.A.A. 1876. Mémoire sur la famille des Clérites. Paris : L. Buquet 51 pp. [Date published 15 Mar. 1876] [16].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia.
Secondary source:
Corporaal, J. B. 1950. Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Pars 23 (Editio secunda). Cleridae. s'-Gravenhage : W. Junk 373 pp. [Date published 22 Dec. 1950] [201] (Note: 'multicolor' and 'varicolor' were listed in synonymy with Phlogistus sculptus (Macleay) by Corporaal (1950: 201) without explanation. Type specimens of Thanasimus sculptus Macleay and Aulicus varicolor Chevrolat are clearly not conspecific.).
Aulicus varicolor Chevrolat, L.A.A. 1876. Mémoire sur la famille des Clérites. Paris : L. Buquet 51 pp. [Date published 15 Mar. 1876] [16] [subjective synonym].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP (2), Australia.

Blackburn, T. 1900. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXVII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24: 113-169 [Date published Dec. 31, 1900] [124] (Blackburn's synonymy seems to be entirely based on Chevrolat's statement that Aulicus varicolor is probably a variety of Aulicus multicolor)

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	CLERIDAE	29-Aug-2017	ADDED	Mr Justin Bartlett