Species Cleobora mellyi (Mulsant, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cleodora mellyi Mulsant, M.E. 1850. Species des Coléoptères Trimères Sécuripalpes. Annales des Sciencies Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiées par la Société nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxième Série, 2: xv + 1-1104 pp (part 1 pp. 1-450; part 2 pp. 451-1104). [160].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHNP, Australia, Tasmania.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pope, R.D. 1989. A revision of the Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Part 1. Subfamily Coccinellinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 633-735 [Date published 1989: dated 1988] [656].
• Halyzia mellyi Mulsant, M.E. 1850. Species des Coléoptères Trimères Sécuripalpes. Annales des Sciencies Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiées par la Société nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxième Série, 2: xv + 1-1104 pp (part 1 pp. 1-450; part 2 pp. 451-1104).

 

Generic Combinations

• Halyzia mellyi (Masters, 1888). —
  Masters, G. 1888. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2(1887): 13-94 [77]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

'widespread in southern and central Australia'.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

Diagnosis References

Ślipiński, A., Li, J. & Pang, H. 2020. Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini). Clayton Sth, VIC, Australia : CSIRO Publishing pp.231. [30-31] (description and distribution)

 

General References

Mulsant, M.E. 1866. Monographie des Coccinellides. Paris : Savy et Deyrolle 292 pp. [123] (as Cleobora mellyi)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Mar-2022	COCCINELLIDAE	12-May-2021	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	30-Apr-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
20-Mar-2012		20-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
17-Jun-2010		17-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		02-Jun-2010	MODIFIED