History of changes

• 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

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)

History of changes

• Sceleocantha carteri McKeown, K.C. 1938. Notes on Australian Cerambycidae IV. Records of the Australian Museum 20(3): 200–216, pls XXII, XXIII [Date published 31 Aug. 1938] [201].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K289552 (x.1924), Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW [33° 48' 57" S 151° 10' 0" E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern NSW to VIC

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

History of changes

• Sceleocantha cuneata McKeown, K.C. 1938. Notes on Australian Cerambycidae IV. Records of the Australian Museum 20(3): 200–216, pls XXII, XXIII [Date published 31 Aug. 1938] [200].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K289550 ♀, Dorrigo, NSW [30° 20' 28" S 152° 42' 50" E].
  Paratype(s) AM K289551 ♀, same data as Holotype.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern QLD to northeast NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Sceleocantha garnseyi McKeown, K.C. 1938. Notes on Australian Cerambycidae IV. Records of the Australian Museum 20(3): 200–216, pls XXII, XXIII [Date published 31 Aug. 1938] [202].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K289549 (14.xii.1933), "Calumet", 26 miles NE of Binnaway, NSW [31° 20' 45" S 149° 34' 18" E].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Broad distribution from north-eastern QLD to south-eastern NSW and the ACT

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Sceleocantha gigas 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 [488].

  Type data:

   Holotype MV T-11002 ♀, Dorrigo, NSW.
• Tillyardia mirabilis 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 data:

   Lectotype MV T-11004 ♂, Dorrigo, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ślipiński, A., de Keyzer, R. & Jin, M. 2023. Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): Volume 3 - Subfamily Prioninae of the Australo-Pacific Region. Melbourne : ABRS, Canberra & CSIRO Publishing Vol. 3 pp. i-xx, 1-512. [250] (previously treated as holotype however description based on two specimens).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lameere, A. 1913. Cerambycidae: Prioninae. pp. 1-108 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. Colepoterorum Catalogus. Berlin : Junk, W. Part 52 pp. 1-108. [81]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate rainforest from around Dorrigo south to Barrington Tops, NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Sceleocantha glabricollis 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] [15].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (type probably lost; type locality probably incorrect as genus does not occur in TAS, see Ślipiński et al. (2023)), Tasmania?, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Ślipiński, A., de Keyzer, R. & Jin, M. 2023. Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): Volume 3 - Subfamily Prioninae of the Australo-Pacific Region. Melbourne : ABRS, Canberra & CSIRO Publishing Vol. 3 pp. i-xx, 1-512. [251-253].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed species in eastern mainland Australia.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

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 Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

History of changes

• Sceleocantha gracilis Ślipiński, A., de Keyzer, R. & Jin, M. 2023. Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae): Volume 3 - Subfamily Prioninae of the Australo-Pacific Region. Melbourne : ABRS, Canberra & CSIRO Publishing Vol. 3 pp. i-xx, 1-512. [254].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 25-067074 ♂, Kuranda, QLD [16°48'S 145°38'E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 25-072972, 25-074777 ♂, same data as Holotype; QM reg. no. not provided ♂ (27 Dec 88 – 8 Jan 1989, E. Schmidt & ANZSES), Windsor Tableland, N QLD; QM reg. no. not provided ♂ (9 Dec 1989 – 14 Jan 1990, Monteith, Thompson & Janetski), Malanda Falls, N. QLD; ANIC 25-074824 ♀, same data as Holotype; ANIC 25-074766 ♀, Lake Eacham, Atherton Tableland, QLD [17°17'S 145°39'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Wet Tropics region of northern QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Prionus pilosicollis Hope, F.W. 1834. Descriptions of some hitherto uncharacterized exotic Coleoptera, chiefly from New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1(1): 11-20 pls i-ii [Date published Nov. 7, 1834] [16].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Swan River, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Sceleocantha pilosicollis (Hope, 1834). —
  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] [15]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Possibly endemic to WA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Distribution References

History of changes