Species Sericesthis consanguinea (Blackburn, 1907)

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• Anodontonyx consanguineus Blackburn, T. 1907. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXVII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 231-299 [262].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Bathurst, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Britton, E.B. 1987. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 5. Tribes Scitalini and Comophorini. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 685-799 [746] (re type).
• Anodontonyx noxius Arrow, G.J. 1932. A few new species of Melolonthine Coleoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 9: 189-197 [193].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Billimari, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Britton, E.B. 1987. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 5. Tribes Scitalini and Comophorini. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 685-799 [746]; Houston, W.W.K. & Weir, T.A. 1992. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 9. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS xii 544 pp. (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 1987. A revision of the Australian Chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) Vol. 5. Tribes Scitalini and Comophorini. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 685-799 [746]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: volant.

Larva: soil dweller.

 

General References

Cumpston, D. 1941. A summary of certain aspects of the scarab problem, and a contribution to a bibliography of the family Scarabaeidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66: 33-40 (biology, larva pest of cereal crops)

McCarthy, T. 1928. The Wheat Root Grub. (Anodontonyx tetricus). Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 39: 306-313 (incorrectly described and figured as Anodontonyx tetricus Blackburn, 1907)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)