Species Porrostoma fuscolineatum Waterhouse, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Porrostoma fuscolineatus Waterhouse, C.O. 1879. Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Coleoptera in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Lycidae. London : British Museum (Natural History) [Trübner & Co.] x 83 pp. 18 pls. [47] [nom. nov. for Porrostoma lineatum Waterhouse, 1877].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s).
• Porrostoma lineatum Waterhouse, C.O. 1877. A monograph of the Australian species of the coleopterous family Lycidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877: 73-86 [78] [junior secondary homonym of Metriorhynchus lineatus (Kirsch, 1875)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, N.W. Australia; exact locality unknown; BMNH ♀, Hobart, TAS (as Hobart Town, V.D. Land).
• Metriorhynchus laetus Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part X. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 6(3): 479-550 [Date published May 23, 1892] [527].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, near Bulli, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kleine, R. 1933. Lycidae. pp. 1-145 in Schenkling, S (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 128 145 pp. [80]

 

Generic Combinations

• Metriorrhynchus fuscolineatus (Waterhouse, 1879). —
  Kleine, R. 1933. Lycidae. pp. 1-145 in Schenkling, S (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 128 145 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	LYCIDAE	26-May-2023	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	19-Jan-2021	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
		12-Feb-2010	(import)