Species Phyllochlaenia rufescens Blanchard, 1846

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• Phyllochlaenia rufescens Blanchard, C.E. 1846. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée exécuté par ordre du Roi Pendant les Années 1837–1840. Atlas Zoologique. Paris : Gide & Co. Vol. Insects pls 1-25. [pl. 8 fig. 11] [subsequently described as Liparetrus rufescens in Blanchard, C.E. 1850. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection Entomologique. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coléoptères. Paris : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Vol. IV 128 pp. (112) where he quotes "pl. 8, fig. 11 (Philochlaenia) (1842), sine descript."; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages.—Part I. 'Amérique méridionale'; 'Indes orientales': 'Pôle Sud' ('Astrolabe' and 'Zélée'); 'La Bonite'; 'La Coquille'; and 'L'Uranie et Physicienne'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 388–392 (390) give the publication date of the text as 1853, but do not mention the Atlas containing 25 colour plates; Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with biographical notes on authors and collectors. Sydney : R. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. viii 380 pp. gives the publication date of the text as 1853 and the Atlas as 1842–1853. We here follow the date given on the title page of the "Atlas Zoologique", namely 1846].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP, TAS.
  Paralectotype(s) MNHP.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [57].

  Secondary source:

   Blanchard, C.E. 1850. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Catalogue de la Collection Entomologique. Classe des insectes. Ordre des Coléoptères. Paris : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Vol. IV 128 pp.; Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages.—Part I. 'Amérique méridionale'; 'Indes orientales': 'Pôle Sud' ('Astrolabe' and 'Zélée'); 'La Bonite'; 'La Coquille'; and 'L'Uranie et Physicienne'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 7: 388-392; Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with biographical notes on authors and collectors. Sydney : R. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. viii 380 pp.
• Caulobius advena Blackburn, T. 1898. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 22: 18-64 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, ?TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [77]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

History of changes

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