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Orcus australasiae Boisduval

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Orcus australasiae (Boisduval)

Coccinella australasiae Boisduval, 1835: 593.

Orcus australasiae var. quadrinotatus Lea 1902: 491.

This species was quoted from New Caledonia by Korschefsky (1931). This Australian species, distinctive by its large size and coloration, has apparently never been collected from New Caledonia. Specimens from the Montrouzier collection had Sydney as locality (Laczynski & Tomaszewska 2009). We consider this record as an erroneous one and the species should be deleted from the New Caledonian checklist.

Notes

Published as part of Nattier, Romain, Jourdan, Hervé, Mille, Christian & Chazeau, Jean, 2015, An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from New Caledonia, pp. 301-331 in Zootaxa 4058 (3) on page 323, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/236980

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/341EB2629C58FFD0FF3DFF492C17FE73

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/236980 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/C827CA1A9C4EFFC6FFAAFFDE285BFFC9 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/A002E0F6-1435-4CA4-A041-F46BAF467C48 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/341EB2629C58FFD0FF3DFF492C17FE73 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/119647891 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/39252/taxon/341EB2629C58FFD0FF3DFF492C17FE73.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Orcus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Boisduval
Species
australasiae
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Boisduval, J. D. (1835) Voyage de Decouvertes de l'Astrolabe Execute par l'Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Annees 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, de M. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Ocean Pacifique, avec l'Illustration des Insectes Nouveaux Recueillis Pendant le Voyage. Deuxieme partie. Coleopteres et autres ordres. J. Tastu, Paris, vii + 716 pp.
  • Lea, A. M. (1902) Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part VI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 26, 481 - 513.
  • Korschefsky, R. (1931) Pars 118: Coccinellidae I. In: Junk, W. (Ed.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1 - 224.
  • Laczynski, P. & Tomaszewska, W. (2009) Revision of the genus Orcus Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Chilocorini). Annales Zoologici, 59, 585 - 611.