Genus Phoracantha Newman, 1840

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• Phoracantha Newman, E. 1840. Nonnullorum Cerambycitum novorum, Novam Hollandiam et Insulam Van Diemen habitantium characteres. Annals of Natural History 1 5: 14–21 [Date published Mar. 1840] [19].

  Type species:

   Stenocorus semipunctatus Fabricius, 1775 (as Cerambyx semipunctatus Donovan) by original designation.
• Diospides Pascoe, F.P. 1866. On the longicornia of Australia, with a list of all the described species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9: 80-112 [Date published 11 Oct. 1866] [99].

  Type species:

   Stenocorus obscurus Donovan, 1805 (as Stenochorus obscurus Donovan, 1805) by monotypy.
• Tryphocharia Pascoe, F.P. 1866. On the longicornia of Australia, with a list of all the described species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9: 80-112 [Date published 11 Oct. 1866] [99].

  Type species:

   Phoracantha hamata Newan, 1840 (= Stenochorus acanthocerus W.S. Macleay, 1826) by original designation.
• Xypeta Pascoe, F.P. 1866. On the longicornia of Australia, with a list of all the described species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 9: 80-112 [Date published 11 Oct. 1866] [100].

  Type species:

   Phoracantha grallaria Pascoe, 1866 by monotypy.
• Phytrocaria Wang, Q. 1996. Phytrocaria Wang, a new genus of Phoracanthini, with a new species from Australia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 50(2): 101–106 [14 June 1996] [101].

  Type species:

   Phytrocaria phaea Wang, 1996 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. 2016. Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Volume 2, Subfamily Cerambycinae. Melbourne, Australia : CSIRO Publishing 640 pp. [239] (for Phytrocaria Wang)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; WA: Jarrah Forest (JF)

General References

Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H. 2016. Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Volume 2, Subfamily Cerambycinae. Melbourne, Australia : CSIRO Publishing 640 pp.

Ślipiński, A. & Escalona, H.E. 2013. Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Collingwood, Vic : CSIRO Vol. 1: Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae 484 pp. + xviii.

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