Subspecies Spercheus platycephalus platycephalus Macleay, 1825

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spercheus platycephalus Macleay, W.S. 1825. Annulosa Javanica, or an attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L. & G.S. and deposited by him in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company. London : Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen 52 pp. 1 pl. [35].
• Spercheus mulsanti Perroud, B.P. & Montrouzier, X. 1865. Essai sur la faune entomologique de Kanala (Nouvelle-Calédonie) et description de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2 11: 46-257 pl. 1 [Date published Feb. 1865] [81].
• Spercheus priscus Sharp, D. 1875. On three new species of Hydrophilidae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 11: 247-250 [250].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hebauer, F. 1997. Revision der Arten der Familie Spercheidae Erichson, 1837 (Coeloptera, Hydrophiloidea). Entomologische Blätter für Biologie und Systematik der Käfer 93(1): 9-42 [19]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), 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), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Sulawesi (Celebes)
• Papua New Guinea
• Tonga

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: aquatic, lentic freshwater, volant.

Larva: aquatic.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)