Genus Trichalus Waterhouse, 1877

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• Trichalus Waterhouse, C.O. 1877. A monograph of the Australian species of the coleopterous family Lycidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877: 73-86 [82].

  Type species:

   Trichalus flavopictus Waterhouse, 1877 by subsequent designation, see Waterhouse, C.O. 1878. On the different forms occurring in the coleopterous family Lycidae, with descriptions of new genera and species. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1878: 95-118 [103].
• Xantheros Fairmaire, L. 1877. Diagnoses de Coléoptères australiens et mélanésiens. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques 2(180): 166–167 [15 Sept. 1877] [167].

  Type species:

   Xantheros ochreatus Fairmaire, 1877 by subsequent designation, see Bourgeois, J. 1891. Etudes sur la distribution géographique des Malacodermes. I. Lycides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 60: 337-364 [346].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kleine, R. 1933. Lycidae. pp. 1-145 in Schenkling, S (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 128 145 pp. [69]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), 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), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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 Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld: Channel Country (CHC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Distribution References

General References

Fairmaire, L. 1879. Descriptions de Coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus du Musée Godeffroy. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 14: 80–114 [99] (redescription of Xantheros)

Kleine, R. 1926. Coleoptera. Lycidae. Nova Guinea 15: 91-195 [168] (key and description of New Guinea species)

 

History of changes

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