Genus Sceleocantha Newman, 1840

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• Sceleocantha Newman, E. 1840. Nonnullorum Cerambycitum novorum, Novam Hollandiam et Insulam Van Diemen habitantium characteres. Annals of Natural History 1 5: 14–21 [Date published Mar. 1840] [14].

  Type species:

   Sceleocantha glabricollis Newman, 1840 by subsequent designation, see Thomson, J. 1864. Systema cerambycidarum ou exposé de tous les genres compris dans la famille des cérambycides et familles limitrophes. Liége : H. Dessain 578 pp. [Date published 1864: pp. 1–352; 1865: 353–578: 1864-1865] [209].
• Tillyardia Carter, H.J. 1913. Descriptions of some new species of Coleoptera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37 [1912]: 480–491, pls L, LI [489].

  Type species:

   Tillyardia mirabilis Carter, 1913 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lameere, A. 1919. Coleoptera: Longicornia fam. Cerambycidae, subfam Prioninae. in Wytsman, P. (ed.) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 172. pp 1-189, pl. 1-8 [145]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld: Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

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