Species Teinogenys nitidus Sharp, 1873

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• Teinogenys nitidus Sharp, D. 1873. Description de nouveaux genres et de nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères Lamellicornes. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 3 1: 262-273 [271].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, WA (as Nov.-Holl. occ.).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Endrödi, S. 1974. Monographie der Dynastinae. 4. Tribus: Pentodontini von Australien und Neu-Zeeland (Coleoptera). Folia Entomologica Hungarica ns 27: 17-70 [18].
• Teinogenys brevis Sharp, D. 1873. Description de nouveaux genres et de nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères Lamellicornes. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 3 1: 262-273 [272].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Nov.-Holl. mer.).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [141]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean and burrowing, larvae humus/plant root-feeder.

 

General References

Allsopp, P.G. & Carne, P.B. 1986. Teinogenys mooniensis sp. n. and new locality records for other species of Teinogenys Sharp (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Dynastinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25(2): 89–93 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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