Species Prodirhagus subparallelus (Bonvouloir, 1872)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Microrhagus subparallelus Bonvouloir, H. de 1872. Monographie de la famille des Eucnémides. 2me partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 40: 289-560 pls 22-36 [531] [name first made available in key, subsequently described by Bonvouloir, H. de 1875. Monographie de la famille des Eucnémides. 3me et 4me parties. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Supplement 10: 561–907 pls 37–42 (595)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, New Guinea (as Nouvelle-Guinée).
• Microrhagus cairnsensis Blackburn, T. 1900. On some new genera and species of Australian Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 12: 206-233 [Date published Apr. 30, 1900] [222].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1 specimen, N QLD; exact locality unknown; SAMA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Muona, J. in Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp. [28]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

Larva: rotting wood.

 

General References

Muona, J. 1993. Review of the phylogeny, classification and biology of the family Eucnemidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 44: 1-133 [Date published Feb. 1, 1993] [65] (biology)

 

History of changes

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