Species Pterohelaeus planus Blessig, 1861

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• Pterohelaeus planus Blessig, C. 1861. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Heteromeren von Australia Felix. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 1: 87-115 [90].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Melbourne, Vic.
• Pterohelaeus peltatus Brême, F. de 1842. Essai Monographique et Iconographique de la Tribu des Cossyphides. Paris : Lacheze. [34] [preoccupied].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MRST, New Holland.
• Pterohelaeus hepaticus Pascoe, F.P. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidae from Australia and Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 29-45, 132-153, 277-296, 344-351 [285].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Melbourne, Vic.
• Pterohelaeus peltoides Macleay, W.J. 1887. Miscellanea entomologica. No. IV - "The Helaeides". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2: 513-550 [546].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not located), NSW, Vic.
• Pterohelaeus bagotensis Blackburn, T. 1896. Coleoptera (exclusive of the Carabidae). pp. 254-308 in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part ii. Zoology. London : Dulau iv 431 pp. [274].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Bagot's Ck, NT.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blackburn, T. 1888. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia x 1886-1887: 52-71, 177-287 [281] (P. peltoides Macleay)
• Carter, H.J. 1920. Notes on some Australian Tenebrionidae, with descriptions of new species; — also of a new genus and species of Buprestidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 222-249 [227] (P. hepaticus Pascoe, P. bagotensis Blackburn)
• Matthews, E.G. 2003. Selection of types of Australian Heleini from the collection of F. di Breme (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali. Torino 20: 119-134 [124] (P. peltatus Brême)

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