Subspecies Phyllotocus macleayi macleayi Fischer, 1823

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• Phyllotocus macleayi Fischer [de Waldheim], G. 1823. Coleoptera quaedam exotica, descripta. Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 6: 254-267 [255].

  Type data:

   Holotype UMB, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Macrothops praeusta 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. [210].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Phyllotocus assimilis Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the insects of Australia allied to the Glaphyridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 75-90 [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS), SA.

 

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. [40]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), 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: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

General References

Britton, E.B. 1957. A Revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). London : British Museum Vol. 1 vii 185 pp. 42 pls. [40] (states that the type should be in the Bremen Museum)

McQuillan, P.B. 1985. The identification of root-feeding cockchafer larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) found in pastures in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 509-546 [524]

 

History of changes

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