• Trichaulax Kraatz, G. 1880. Genera Cetonidarum Australiae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 24: 177-214 [196].

  Type species:

   Cetonia philipsii Schreibers, 1802 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Distribution References

History of changes

• Schizorhina concinna Janson, O.E. 1873. Descriptions of new species of Australian Cetoniidae. Cistula Entomologica 1: 133-140 [134].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, Nickol (as Nicol) Bay, WA (as NW Australia).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

Qld, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf
  • Western Australia: NW 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 [123] (biology)

History of changes

• Schizorhina kirbyi Thomson, J. 1878. Typi Cetonidarum suivus de typi Monommidarum et de typi Nilionidarum Musaei Thomsoniani. Paris : E. Deyrolle 44 pp. [22].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Australia (as Nov. Holl.).

  Secondary source:

   Kraatz, G. 1880. Genera Cetonidarum Australiae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 24: 177-214 [197].
• Schizorhina donovani Thomson, J. 1878. Typi Cetonidarum suivus de typi Monommidarum et de typi Nilionidarum Musaei Thomsoniani. Paris : E. Deyrolle 44 pp. [23].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Australia (as Nov. Holl.).

  Secondary source:

   Kraatz, G. 1880. Genera Cetonidarum Australiae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 24: 177-214 [197].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Allard, V. 1995. Les Coléoptères du Monde [The Beetles of the World]. Schizorhinini 1. English text by Brian Morris. Venette, France : Sciences Nat Vol. 23 152 pp. [Date published May-95] [35]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

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

History of changes

• Trichaulax macleayi Kraatz, G. 1894. Trichaulax macleayi nov. spec. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 13: 255 [255] [erroneously quoted as a variety of philipsii (as philippsii) Schreibers by Arrow, G.J. 1943. On the genera and nomenclature of the lucanid Coleoptera, and descriptions of a few new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London B 12: 133–143 and Hiller, A. 1990. Notes on systematics and biology of Trichaulax Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 117–130].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB ♀, WA (as West-Australien).

  Secondary source:

   Arrow, G.J. 1943. On the genera and nomenclature of the lucanid Coleoptera, and descriptions of a few new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London B 12: 133-143; Hiller, A. 1990. Notes on systematics and biology of Trichaulax Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 117-130.
• Trichaulax sericea Janson, O.E. 1905. Description of Coleoptera of the family Cetoniidae from British New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 16: 11-18 [17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) Bebini, PNG (as Babooni, British New Guinea).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hiller, A. 1990. Notes on systematics and biology of Trichaulax Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 117-130 [124]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

Qld, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

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

General References

Cantrell, B. 1979. Breeding sites of Trichaulax philipsii (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). News Bulletin, Entomological Society of Queensland 6: 127-128 (biology)

Hiller, A. 1990. Notes on systematics and biology of Trichaulax Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 117-130 [125] (distribution)

History of changes

• 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

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

• Schizorhina nortoni Butler, A.G. 1865. Description of a new species of Cetonia in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 16: 161-162 [161].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Sydney, NSW.
• Schizorhina trichopyga Thomson, J. 1878. Une note au sujet de diverses Cétonides. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 5 8: 10-11 [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hiller, A. 1990. Notes on systematics and biology of Trichaulax Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 117-130 [118]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: 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 [119] (biology)

Lea, A.M. 1914. Notes on Australian Cetoniides; with a list of species and descriptions of some new ones. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 38: 132-218 [133] (misidentification of Trichaulax marginipennis (Macleay, 1863))

History of changes

• Cetonia philipsii Schreibers, C.F.A. 1802. Descriptions of some singular Coleopterous insects. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 6: 185-206 pls 19-21 [193].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Cetonia carinata Donovan, E. 1805. An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other Islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific Oceans: including Figures and Descriptions of One Hundred and Fifty-three Species of the more Splendid, Beautiful, and Interesting Insects, hitherto Discovered in those Countries, and which for the most Part have not appeared in the Works of any Preceding Author. London : Rivington iv + [167] pp. + [41] pls. [Date published January] [second page of unnumbered text].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Australia (as New Holland).
• Schizorhina schreibersii Thomson, J. 1878. Typi Cetonidarum suivus de typi Monommidarum et de typi Nilionidarum Musaei Thomsoniani. Paris : E. Deyrolle 44 pp. [22].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, Australia (as Nov. Holl.).

  Secondary source:

   Kraatz, G. 1880. Genera Cetonidarum Australiae. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 24: 177-214 [197].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hiller, A. 1990. Notes on systematics and biology of Trichaulax Kraatz (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17: 117-130 [126]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE coastal, Murray-Darling basin, QLD, NSW, VIC, SA.

IBRA

ACT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

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

General References

Cantrell, B. 1979. Breeding sites of Trichaulax philipsii (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). News Bulletin, Entomological Society of Queensland 6: 127-128 (biology)

History of changes