Species Rhopaea magnicornis Blackburn, 1888

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• Rhopaea magnicornis Blackburn, T. [1887] 1888. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177-287 [210].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I519, F2384, SAMA Database No. 25-034464 ♂, Richmond River, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 1978. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 60: 1-150.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin, QLD.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: non-feeder, volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva pest of pastures, sugar cane, arrowroot and pineapples.

 

General References

Britton, E.B. 1978. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 60: 1-150 [42]

Chadwick, C.E. 1970. Some aspects of the life history and ecology of Rhopaea magnicornis Blkb. (Col., Scarabaeidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 95: 11-21 (life history, ecology, pest status)

Roberts, R.J., Campbell, A.J., Porter, M.R. & Sawtell, N.L. 1982. The distribution and abundance of pasture scarabs in relation to Eucalyptus trees. pp. 207-214 in Lee, K.E. (ed.). Proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology, Adelaide 30 Nov.–4 Dec. 1981. Adelaide : S.A. Government Printer.

Roberts, R.J., Ridsdill Smith, T.J., Porter, M.R. & Sawtell, N.L. 1982. Fluctuations in the abundance of pasture scarabs over an 18-year period of light trapping. pp. 75-79 in Lee, K.E. (ed.). Proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology, Adelaide 30 Nov.–4 Dec. 1981. Adelaide : S.A. Government Printer.

Soo Hoo, C.F. & Roberts, R.J. 1965. Sex attraction in Rhopaea (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Nature (London) 205: 724-725

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Aug-2021	SCARABAEIDAE	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)