Species Pimelopus fischeri (Montrouzier, 1860)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cheiroplatys fischeri Montrouzier, P. 1860. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifui, etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 8: 229-308 [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, New Caledonia.
• Chiroplatys lissus Olliff, A.S. 1888. IV. Insecta. pp. 1001-1014 in Millington, J.A.M. Report on a small zoological collection from Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 989-1014 [1004].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 4♀, Norfolk Is.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [41]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Lord Howe Is., Norfolk Is.; Melanesia: Loyalty Is., New Caledonia.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean and burrowing, larvae humus/plant root-feeder.

General References

Endrödi, S. 1971. Monographie der Dynastinae. Tribus: Pentodontini (papuanische und pazifische Inselwelt). (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia: Melolonthidae). Pacific Insects 13: 243-320 (distribution)

Reid, C.A.M., Shaw, J.J. & Jensen, A.R. 2018. The Australian Museum Lord Howe Island Expedition 2017—Coleoptera. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 26: 53-67 [65]

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