Species Trichaulax marginipennis (Macleay, 1863)

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• Schizorhina marginipennis Macleay, W.J. 1863. Descriptions of twenty new species of Australian Coleoptera, belonging to the families Cicindelidae and Cetoniidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 9-21 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

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), Channel Country (CHC), 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), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Adults feed on nectar and pollen, larvae in rotten wood.

 

General References

Hiller, A. 1990. Notes on systematics and biology of Trichaulax Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 117-130 [122] (biology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		06-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020		17-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)