Species Saprinus (Saprinus) laetus Erichson, 1834

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• Saprinus laetus Erichson, W.F. 1834. Uebersicht der Histeroides der Sammlung. Jahrbüch der Insectenkunde. Berlin 1: 83–208 [179].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNB ♀, Nova Holland.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lackner, T. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2017. A monograph of the Australopacific Saprininae (Coleoptera, Histeridae). ZooKeys 689: 1–263 [151].
• Saprinus gayndahensis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [158].
• Saprinus westraliensis Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [106].
• Saprinus mastersii Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [158].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K204387, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Saprinus cyanellus Marseul, S.A. 1855. Essai monographique sur la famille des Histérides (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 3: 83-165, 327-506, 677-758 [387].
• Saprinus pseudocyaneus White, A. 1846. Insects. 1-24 pls I-X in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839–43. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 2 139 pp. [8].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lackner, T. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2017. A monograph of the Australopacific Saprininae (Coleoptera, Histeridae). ZooKeys 689: 1–263 [151]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	01-May-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
	Saprininae	19-Jun-2018	ADDED